Discussion about perch in Fish Lake

[mkade85]

It took me an hour to read this post. I always get excited when I see posts about fish lake as it it my favorite place in the state to fish. We fish there probably twenty times a year. My old man started taking me there when I was young. It was in the late nineties. (I'm twenty six). He would always talk about the big splake and lakers he would catch back in the day. So we'd try trolling and jigging deep until I'd get bored. Then we'd go shallow and he'd let me catch perch till we ran out of bait. We did it in the boat and on the ice. Now that I'm older and have my own boat I don't even try for the macs. But I catch the hell out of the perch and rainbows.

I think it's a generational thing. My old man hates the perch almost as much as the chubs in scofield. But I love them I love catching them and I love eatin em. I've never caught a monster Mac or even a twenty inch splake. But Fish Lake is still my favorite place to fish. And even though my dad hasn't caught a laker with any size to it in twenty five years its his favorite place too. I like it the way it is and he likes it the way it was in the sixties and seventies.

Maybe if I was around back then I would hate the perch too. But I wasn't.
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