Thread: Old Pictures and Memories

Love eating them along with walleye! Of coarse not a lot I don't like to eat!

Originally Posted by LSL Angler

When fishing for walleye in Canada we would get mad when we caught perch instead because we were limited on minnows. Didn't know they were good eating. Of course we ate walleye every night.

when I was younger dad used to take us to Ear Falls, Ontario fishing for Walleye and Pike. That was on Red Lake Road. Great times for sure and yes, we would eat Walleye every night too!

We always called blue gill and sun fish perch...never knew perch were different.
I just learned something else on CDC.
....but for this thread, I'm super impressed with the picture quality of that 2008 camera.

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Originally Posted by Baitwaster

We always called blue gill and sun fish perch...never knew perch were different.
I just learned something else on CDC.
....but for this thread, I'm super impressed with the picture quality of that 2008 camera.

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You are correct about the name 'perch'. That name seems to be a universal name for what ever. My wife had never eaten them before. She was raised on the Mississippi river and her dad always called river drum 'Perch'. We were in Wisconsin once and Perch was on the menu, which I ordered. She looked at me very weird. At that time I did not know the back story on her version of Perch. She tasted it and I made a believer out of her!

Regarding the pictures, it appears I was wrong about the year, but not too far off. The year was 2009 and the month was May. Here are the details on the picture.

Originally Posted by Joedog

We grew up on perch dinners on Friday nights in WI.

I only spent ~6 years up there JoeDog but we instantly recognized that a Friday fish fry was religion in 'Sconnie. I do miss it up there. Paired with a Cow or 9, of course.

The jumbo's are harder to find these days, we fished for them on Lake Michigan when the salmon weren't around and the old timers would talk about the days of buckets full of 14"-16" perch which are downright toads!

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I’ve only caught a few of them when we went to Wisconsin but they were good to eat


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