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Exclusively Yellow Perch in a cold wet snow from shore

Inhaled the white Bucktail .The float was set for 2-2,1/2'

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Comment by John Sheehan on November 11, 2012 at 7:59am: That's great Dick ! Go ahead write a book and I'll read it!

Comment by dick tabbert on November 10, 2012 at 9:27pm: Thanks John you got my juices flowing and I'm remembering some of them lost memories so tomorrow I'll have a post for the GOOD OLD DAYS if I remember.

Comment by John Sheehan on November 10, 2012 at 7:20pm: 18'' was the size I ate ,Yup good!

Comment by dick tabbert on November 10, 2012 at 7:19pm: Walleye are in the perch family and your right they do taste a little like perch if you don't catch and clean a big one. Up to an 18 inch walleye is about perfect.

Comment by John Sheehan on November 10, 2012 at 7:18pm: Dave,here's my Bluegill Calender : http://bigbluegill.com/photo/albums/bluegill-calender

Comment by John Sheehan on November 10, 2012 at 7:16pm: I agree Dick !Yellow Perch are a great meal .Only ate one Walleye I caught (only ever caught three,all on shad raps)and the Walleye tasted like Perch to me.

Comment by John Sheehan on November 10, 2012 at 7:14pm: I have five white perch in the freezer I intend to cut up into strips ,put on jigs and ice fish with this year for the first time .I will salt them like I do dead shiners I use that work .

Comment by dick tabbert on November 10, 2012 at 7:14pm: All I can say is before the walleye it was strictly perch. My Dad and I use to go out and catch wash tube loads and then reality set in when it was time to scale and fillet them but the 2nd best part was the eating them.

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on November 10, 2012 at 7:11pm: John - I believe a 12.5" yellow perch can rightly be called a keepr. Nothing to sneeze at for sure. I love your idea of a calendar from your local waters, with a pic of a caught fish for each month. What a great plan.

I do admire any guy who consistently catches fish all year. It is one thing to "tear 'em up on the beds," as they say around here. Or to get a striper or two during their spring run. But to catch them all year, winter or summer, rain or shine, says as much about the angler as anything.

Dick, Ive heard that many people use the white perch as cut bait for the big catfish around here.