Perch Spawn

Saw some pretty cool stuff yesterday I wanted to share with the board. Results of some of the yellow perch spawning going on. Took these pictures at a big near by lake. Came across clusters of what I've since found are yellow perch eggs referred to as "ribbons" as I was fishing. Initially thought they were maybe frog eggs until I saw the massive amounts in the area I was fishing. Not only were there loads of eggs already released, look at the attached video of the number of perch in the area. Mostly males but also fair number of what appeared to be spawned out females or females in waiting. From what I've read, females will drop their eggs in the early morning hours so maybe they were waiting for this morning to drop theirs. The video is a little blurred but look at the amount of perch that came to my jig, a few hundred at minimum. The quality of the video unfortunately doesn't do justice showing the number of perch there but it was insane. Other than a few isolated cases, they didn't hit the jig but they came to it almost like they saw it as something trying to eat the eggs already dropped and were fending it off. I ended up taking the video off a small dock so as not to hurt the eggs laid or disrupt the spawning process, wasn't trying to catch the fish just wanted to attract them to show on the video. Hopefully you can make it out, nature is truly amazing. Once you click on the link, hit the play arrow in the upper right hand corner to initiate the video.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/wUQ3BcCk8i1W3h1L7

Couple still pictures of the "ribbons" for you to see. They were all over the place. Crazy part is I was fishing maybe a football field away and catching non spawned out females and males which were probably still staging awaiting the call of nature to spawn. Those fish were hitting the bobber jig presentation, the fish in the video as mentioned around the ribbons were not. Natures way I'm guessing of guarding the eggs against predators.

Very cool to see, hope you enjoy and can view the video.