Yeah, the discharge is too hot. I was fishing at the intake, employees only.
I did a little research since I got home, and found out why the white perch is an invasive specie.
Like most of the invasive specie in Okla, it came from the great lakes most likely in ballast water from foreign ships.
On the east coast, especially the Hudson River, they are considered a great eating fish, and there are efforts to increase their numbers.
At the great lakes, biologists have discovered that they have an appetite for fish eggs, in fact they survive in the spring eating nothing but walleye and white bass eggs. Other times during the year, they are voracious eaters of small minnows, and they don't care what specie.
They are cousins of the white bass, and can easily hybridize with the specie, and then cross back over, screwing up the whole gene pool.
Each female can produce 140,000 eggs a season.
In my research, I found out that its a violation of wildlife laws to possess one that is alive in Kansas.
I'll do a little looking around on the ODW website, and see what they recommend. Its a loosing battle on Sooner lake, with the Zebra mussels also contributing to the loss of the food chain for hybrids and white bass.
phytoplankton eat zooplankton, and shad eat the phytoplankton, then stripers and white bass eat the shad to complete the food chain.
The zebra mussels have almost wiped out the zooplankton, disrupting the food chain. Fish that should weigh 10 pounds weigh 8 or less due to lack of nutrition.
The white perch are only going to basically take over the lake. Sux
