The Spokesman-Review has reported: Lake Cascade has produced another Idaho state-record yellow perch, this one weighing 2 pounds, 15.36 ounces to top the previous of 2 pounds, 11.68 ounces also caught in the reservoir north of Boise. The lunker perch –15 5/8 inches long with a girth of 13 1/4 inches — was caught Friday, Feb. 26, by Skye Coulter of Donnelly. His hook was baited with a worm.
Tia Weise, whose record was usurped by Coulter’s fish, still holds the catch-and-release yellow perch record of 16-inches, which she set at Cascade on Feb. 7. The fish wasn’t officially weighed because it was released under the state’s new catch-and-release record rules.
“Cascade has consistently produced trophy perch in the last two years,” says Roger Phillips, Idaho Fish and Game Department spokesman. “Before 2014, the state record had stood for 38 years, but it has been topped at least four times in the last two years by perch caught in Lake Cascade.”
The reservoir was overhauled in the early 2000s. Fish and Game crews removed tons of unwanted fish, mostly northern pikeminnows, and transplanted 850,000 adult perch. Continue Reading – http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/outdoors/2016/mar/01/another-idaho-record-perch-caught-lake-cascade/