Thread: Old Pictures and Memories

So these aren't crappie, but are just as tasty and they weren't caught in Missouri. I was browsing some older pictures after a new phone purchase and found these. I would love to find perch down here, but I haven’t found any below I80. Before I moved to Missouri I was in the ‘burbs of Chicago and there was a magic time of year when the jumbo perch would venture in to certain Lake Michigan harbors. Close enough so that you could cast from shore and do pretty well. When the magic time of the year hit, everyone that fished knew they were there and sometimes you were lucky if you could find a decent spot. These were caught in the Montrose Harbor area off a point referred to by the locals as the Horse Shoe. I only caught three on that day, but they were nice ones. This was the very last time I was fishing down at any of the Lake Michigan harbors. Hopefully these pictures upload and size okay. They were taken back around 2008.