I caught a white perch in the thoroughfare near the bridge by Long so they are surly in Long also. I am putting my money on some dumb ass bucket bio putting them in Cross as thats where the first ones I herd of in that area.
I initially thought that they were put there intentionally and then sort of gravitated to... they were in someone's bait bucket and were dumped inadvertently. I'm now leaning towards they were put in the FRC intentionally. No one will ever convince me that we don't have bucket biologists on this site.... Be it downstate or up here.
After what I have seen this year I would have to agree with you.
I'm not sure if you guys get the me.gov reports like I do but I see a couple guys from the County were just charged with illegally importing fish up there, not sure if related to the perch problem or something else. Environmental terrorism is everywhere sadly, you guys aren't immune even in Gods country.
I have never caught a largie out of the Penobscot, even though we all knew it was gonna happen since they got into Pushaw, but to catch one that far up was definitely unsettling.