something about flyfishing

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Makes me think of the Stan Rogers song, "Tiny Fish for Japan".

Don't know that one. I watch for it. Thanks.

It's a cut on the "From Fresh Water" album. Most excellent album if
you're into Stan Rogers at all. The "White Squall" opening cut gives me
chills every time I hear it.

Thanks again, Joe.

Wolfgang

RalphH wrote:
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"Wolfgang" wrote in message
Pretty much the same story here in the upper Great Lakes region. The
once bountiful yellow perch, smelt, lake trout and whitefish are all
but gone.

Makes me think of the Stan Rogers song, "Tiny Fish for Japan".

Joe F.

I know Stan Rogers but I don't know that one... love the "Live in Halifax"
CD

Hm......

I'm no music buff......but I've got a copy of a live recording of a
Stan Rogers performance called "Home in Halifax." Different
stuff?.....or just a bit of confusion about the title?

All the Yellow Perch have moved to British Columbia - we hate them

Serve 'em up breaded, deep fried and free at all the local watering
holes on Friday nights. It worked here.

Wolfgang
she said, "kick his balls boys....."

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
RalphH wrote:
All the Yellow Perch have moved to British Columbia - we hate them

Serve 'em up breaded, deep fried and free at all the local watering
holes on Friday nights. It worked here.

There's your regional differences for you. The demise of the yellow perch
around here is sorely lamented. Time was, a fella could take a bucket o'
minnows out on the tidal Gunpowder River in the springtime & catch his fill
before lunch. Word was they were good eatin', though I was never a big
panfish fan. Nowadays, though, there are size limits, catch limits, closed
seasons. Most here see the demise of the abundance of yellow perch as
symptomatic.

Joe F.

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"Wolfgang" wrote in message
RalphH wrote:
All the Yellow Perch have moved to British Columbia - we hate them

Serve 'em up breaded, deep fried and free at all the local watering
holes on Friday nights. It worked here.

There's your regional differences for you. The demise of the yellow perch
around here is sorely lamented. Time was, a fella could take a bucket o'
minnows out on the tidal Gunpowder River in the springtime & catch his
fill before lunch. Word was they were good eatin', though I was never a
big panfish fan. Nowadays, though, there are size limits, catch limits,
closed seasons. Most here see the demise of the abundance of yellow perch
as symptomatic.

Joe F.

No size limit on yellow perch here in W. MI. Catch limit of 50. This rarely
happens anymore. Tasty little buggers though.
It seems every VFW, Eagles, Moose lodge, etc. has perch dinners around here.

Jeremy Moe

rb608 wrote:
"Wolfgang" wrote in message
RalphH wrote:
All the Yellow Perch have moved to British Columbia - we hate them

Serve 'em up breaded, deep fried and free at all the local watering
holes on Friday nights. It worked here.

There's your regional differences for you. The demise of the yellow perch
around here is sorely lamented. Time was, a fella could take a bucket o'
minnows out on the tidal Gunpowder River in the springtime & catch his fill
before lunch. Word was they were good eatin', though I was never a big
panfish fan. Nowadays, though, there are size limits, catch limits, closed
seasons. Most here see the demise of the abundance of yellow perch as
symptomatic.

When I was a small boy I would often walk the mile or so down to the
harbor in Kenosha with my brothers and my sister, each of us armed with
a long two section cane pole early on a summer's morning. We would
stop at a bait shop at the corner of 6th Avenue and 50th street and get
a couple dozen minnows for a dime or a quarter, and then head out onto
the pier and take up stations among the hundred or more other folks
lining both sides, out beyond where the ships were moored......out
where the concrete was broken and presented inescapable and
unforgetable views of a watery hell just waiting to swallow a small
boy......um.....but I digress.

We would catch perch in the ttwelve to fifteen inch size range until we
ran out of bait.....half an hour or so.....and then cut up one of the
smaller perch into hook size bits and fish some more.

The morning would invariably end with a long death-march homeward, one
or more small children crying.....tired and cranky from carrying all
those heavy fish.

Those days are gone forever.....I'm much taller now.....and I can swim.


Alas, the perch are gone too. Daily catch limits in those days were
obscene.....a hundred?.....two hundred?.....I don't remember for sure.
Commercial fishing boats hauled them in by the ton. They were so
common that they were literally given away for free at the local bars
to hungry factory workers as they left work in the afternoon......as
long as they kept buying nickel beers. They drank a lot of beer.

For generations (including the first half of mine) perch was THE staple
at the Friday night fish fry offered by virtually every restaurant (and
Catholic Church basement) in the region. You can still get perch
today.....but it's Canadian.....and it'll cost you about twice as much
as the cod (which is also disappearing) or haddock (which is nowhere
near as plentiful as it once was) or tilapia or.....

You can also get whitefish......but it's Canadian....or lake
trout....but it's.....well, you know.

But, as cheerful and zealous as the profligate rape of the resource
was, I think the damage done by both "sport" and commercial fishing
pales by comparison with what was done to the lake itself. People
don't fish all that much for perch anymore.....but they haven't come
back.

Personally, I would never turn up my nose at a properly fried perch,
but I like bluegill and their close cousins much better. And there's
billions of them left around here.....and they're easy.....and they are
SO much fun on a fly rod!

Wolfgang

Personally, I would never turn up my nose at a properly fried perch,
but I like bluegill and their close cousins much better. And there's
billions of them left around here.....and they're easy.....and they are
SO much fun on a fly rod!

Wolfgang


We live about two minutes from a small lake filled with bluegills. No better
way to teach a small child to fish than to put them on top of a million
'gills that will eat anything offered. My son loves to fish bluegills. His
dad gets tired of cleaning them, but they too fry up into a pretty good
meal. And Wolfgang is right, bluegills are by far the most fun, and I would
argue that they put up a pretty impresive fight for their size.

Jeremy Moe

"Home in Halifax" ... that's the one. St Mary's Lake on Saltspring Island
British Columbia once had some great smallmouth bass and cutthroat trout.
It's now loaded with perch. The bass fishing is still ok but the perch have
over populated the lake in 5 years. Okanagan Lake - lots of perch ditto for
Pinaus Lake. Pinaus used to be a great spot for trout - not anymore. We have
a plague of illegally introduced fish from back east - Largemouth, Perch and
even Pike. No one's ever been caught - where do they get all those fish?

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