christmas wish

[Indiana Steve]

I was born in Toledo, moved to Indiana in 1963. I remember unlimited perch catches in the 1960's. Dad used to take my brother and I out to the intake and we would fish for hours. Dad said we always ended up with 100-120 lbs of fillets from the one saturday morning trip. We used to buy shiners by the dollar and not by the dozen, and when we ran out, we would cut up small white bass for bait. I can remember feeding frenzies that you could drop a gold hook with no bait and catch a perch.
When they came up with limits on yellow perch, I have no clue as I quit coming up for years and just started fishing Erie again in the past 3 years

[rscotfish]

steve i did not fish erie till around the early 70s but still remember sitting on boat eating bologna sandwich with a big slice of onion and a cold beer and doubles all day long just off the intake and 1 mile off channel gas was cheap and we gave fish to all our family and friends. now we fish as much as we can seems the weather wont cooperate and the fish just cant spawn in the rough windy weather in the spring need a couple 2003s to fill the lake back up with walleye and perch