Doesn't look like any perch I've ever seen!
Oh wait you southern guys call bluegill perch. Man ya gotta stop doin' that!
Sorry to veer this slightly off course. But Cecil's post brings back the memory of two rather inebriated fishermen I ran across on the Shenandoah River several years ago.
It was a nice summer evening, and I was just getting in my kayak to start fishing. These two fools were just exiting the river with their canoe. I asked about their fishing success. They both pulled up stringers jammed with dead and dying 6- to 10-inch smallmouth bass -- probably at least 25 on each stringer.
I don't know if they were northerners or southerners, but they proudly told me that "the perch were really biting." Since they were far less than sober, I didn't want a confrontation. I remember mumbling under my breath "they sure don't look like any perch I've ever seen before."
