Quote Originally Posted by walleyewacker View Post
Wayne-

What you are saying is that each limit weighed basically 5 poiunds. That is 5 fish per pound. Again 63 pounds is believable not the size. 5 fish per pound means a lot of 7inch or less perch being kept, not 7.5 and better. There is nothing wrong with keeping small perch, just don't lie about it. You might get everyone else on here to "take the bait" but not me. You caught a bunch of little perch and want to brag about it and someone called you out. Everyone at drawbridge were looking at your catch in disbelief, they couldn't believe you kept some many small perch. If guys like you would be more selective, our perch would attain a larger average size. You would keep 13 inch walleye if the law would allow. Don't brag about little fish, unless you are a 10 year old kid.
Wacker needs to stop submitting his bs here . He stopped for a while after his walleye bs this spring. Now its his bs knowledge of perch. He must think he is a fish scientist for constant bs he writes about. Lake Erie captains , most have fished the lake for MANY years a not many bring in stories like his. He must have a fish stretching board on his row boat to talk like a hillbilly story teller form the hills. Yall aint gona blev this, he says.
His stories of locations and sizes will never add up to more the bs it that it smells of.
He knows all and tells all. I fished Monday in 4 normally great spots for perch and took 7 to 10.5 inch fish. Did not get a limit. Probably boated 300 perch but the size for two thirds of them did not make the grade for charter fish.
Most fish we kept averaged 7.5 inch. Warm water holds the larger perch way off in deeper water than the western basin holds till the water starts cooling off in a month. I have fished Erie for 33 years and thats the way it has always been. Whats changed since the 70's hay days. Water clearity, commercial fishing, baitfish, are the main ones. The days of stuffed coolers of back then are still hopeful in my mind but until that time we catch what the lake gives up to us each day we fish. Some days good and some days not.
The weather patterns , the moon phase, wind and currents. Most do , and go to what they remember the did from the last trip or last year or 10 years ago and it sometimes works out. Remember that fishing is fishing and its not a job and nowbody likes a guy that the talks and thinks hes is bragging about what he does or does not do on the lake we love. This site is for honest advice and maybe tell your spots because this lake will be here for many years along with the fish. Stop your bs and let the rest of us tell our true stories to help the true fisherman catch some fish. Enough said. GO AWAY