St. Patrick's Day at Allens Fresh

[Loon]

Tried Allen's Fresh today for 2 hours before the rain chased me out. Caught nothing near the bridge but finally did started to pick up a few small white perch and one yellow upstream. I must have missed the yellow perch run because there were lots of yellow perch egg sacks up the creek.

[Shady]

Bad news for you, but hopefully good news for the fish. We need a good spawn this year, YP fishing was pretty off this winter.

[fish on]

Thank for the report Yakfisher, I went on 3/4 with no fish to show for it. On 3/4 no yellow egg sacks up stream of the bridge. I was thinking about going to Allen fresh tomorrow but not sure now if the run is over

[master pungo]

Yellows probably done whites in progress

Allens has done it again. The yellows managed to sneak past and do a less then spectacular spawn. There are eggs all the way upstream. The spawn seems to get weaker every year. The whites are doing thier spawn now I caught well over a hundered on Sat. I kept the largest 12. Has anybody else noted the decline of the yellow perch in allens over the last few years?

Thank for the report Yakfisher, I went on 3/4 with no fish to show for it. On 3/4 no yellow egg sacks up stream of the bridge. I was thinking about going to Allen fresh tomorrow but not sure now if the run is over

[mepps3]

Has anybody else noted the decline of the yellow perch in allens over the last few years?

I have noticed a downward trend, but can't really say for sure because I don't get to fish every single day down there. So I never can tell it is my bad timing or a decline in fish. But I do know it used to seem like a solid 5 day span of catching fish when the run was on. The last few years it is more like a day or two. I only caught one female this year, an 11 incher last saturday, and it had a tiny underdeveloped egg sack. So that didn't look good.

[ictalurus]

I definitely used to have more luck there, but I haven't fished it as regularly as I did then. It seems like yellow perch aren't doing so well in a number of creeks and rivers. Yellow perch are like other anadromous fish and have greater reproductive success during wet springs. Last spring was pretty dry, IIRC, and we've had a number of dry springs since 2003. Like the song says, you can't get molasses if you ain't got no lasses... Anyway, I think yellow perch might not tolerate heavy fishing pressure as well as other species, but I'm not really sure why that would be.