Sixty-Seven years old here and started perching at 6 years old with my Dad. He rented a rowboat just south of the lighthouse from a lady who had boards lain parallel to the road and she slid the rowboats down into the water. $2.00 to rent the boat which included oars and a paint bucket full of concrete and a rope for the anchor. Another quarter got you life jackets. Dad would row out until he got tired and would toss the anchor. We would fill the cooler with perch. Grandpa got a boat a few years later but we always perch fished from the lighthouse to the smokestack. Not many fish there anymore but there used to be hundreds of boats there every day from the first of September until November.