Windamere dam silver perch concerns

[Member]

Has anyone of late caught a silver perch in lake windamere?
I've fished it almost every week end i can for the past 3 years and have not caught one in the dam since 2004!
where are they?
We used to tie the boat up to a tree and almost every tree we would get silvers on worms.

[Member]

Seen the same at alot of other places... rarely get silvers these days. I think they're in some serious trouble in the wild as well as dams.

[Member]

Personally I would never stock them (for put and take impoundments), catch return rate way to low to justify spending money on when compared to catch rate of bass or yella's.

[Member]

There's still heaps in wyangala, and i think windamere is still stocked each year with them and they would breed in there.
But where did they all go?