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Message: <blockquote data-quote="3Roosters" data-source="post: 69987" data-attributes="member: 1351">One of my fondest memories of a  great perch bite happened about a million years ago. I was living in Thief River Falls, Mn at the time and a few of us decided to go on a roadie to a small lake about 30 miles away and drink schnapps and beer and maybe catch a few fish in the process. We had no vexilars ..heck..not sure if they were invented yet! We didn't even have a gas auger...good ole hard work from a trusty hand auger. To tell you the truth..from what I recall, we didn't even have fancy pantsy fishing rigs..friggen sticks with a sharp point to stick in the ice..come on guys..you remember those, correct? It was a drinking excursion first and foremost and if we catch fish..even better. We happened upon this small lake, saw some people fishing so we decided that this would be our drinking spot for the next few hours. Did we know the lake? nope. Did we know where to go? nope. Drove out to the far end of the lake about 100 yards from shore and shut the truck down and started drilling some holes. With our trusty lead weight for a depth finder, we surmised the depth to be about 7 feet.  Holy Hannah folks! As soon as we put our lines down the perch started attacking. Didn't have time to use more than one pole. It was like they hadn't eaten in a year. It was a friggen perch catching frenzy for like 2 hours straight, barely had time to take a chug of schnapps! Soon one pickle bucket was full, then another and finally a third. I do not recall the perch limit if there was one back in the day but we had a bunch of them.We weren't the type of fellas that would keep more that what was legal. Yeah yeah yeah.. I know I will hear it from some that we wrecked it for others...anyyyyyyywayyyyyyyy.. we were having a blast. When it came time to leave we packed everything up and started heading off the lake full of fish and schnapps. As we were leaving the lake we came upon a guy and his family fishing and stopped to ask how they were doing. Not so good was his response. What??? really?? we were hammering the heck out of them. We decided to be good Samaritans to that family and asked if they would like some perch. YESSS...that sure would be nice of you fellas. So we gave them one pickle bucket of perch...told him he could even keep the bucket. hahaha (deep down I don't think it was so much as good Samaritans as it was that none of us wanted to clean that many!!) haha  I have had some decent times on Devils through the years as well but this one is my most memorable!! The End.</blockquote>

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