I ALMOST ALWAYS PRACTICE CATCH & RELEASE. IF I KILL IT, I EAT IT.

I ALMOST ALWAYS PRACTICE CATCH & RELEASE.  IF I KILL IT, I EAT IT.

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"Most of the world is covered by water. A fishermans's job is simple: Pick out the best parts." Charles Waterman

"One thing becomes clearer as one gets older and one's fishing experience increases, and that is the paramount importance of one's fishing companions." John Ashley-Cooper

"There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home." Roderick Haig-Brown


Thursday, March 3, 2011

Vermont State Record Perch


Last weekend was the Northeast Kingdom Fishing Derby.  The derby got off to a great start as my brother caught the biggest yellow perch I have ever seen.  On my digital scale, it weighed 2lbs. 2oz. which is the same weight as the vermont state record perch listed on the vermont fish and wildlife website.  However, 8 hours elapsed from the time he caught it and when he weighed it in.  Officially, on the scale it weighed 1.75 lbs. or 1lb. 12oz.  This puts the fish very high on the record books, I believe tied for 7th.  Here are some pics of the fish.

The rest of the weekend however did not go as well.  We were targeting Pike and the largest we caught was 6lbs. 8oz. and a couple other smaller 3lb. fish.  We did manage to catch some more really nice yellow perch from the same lake as the record fish.  We probably could have caught many more of these, but as I said, we were focused on Pike.  
Most of the weekend was spent looking at idle flags and trying to figure out where all the fish had gone too.  At least we had beautiful scenery.

4 comments:

  1. Nice Perch...way to go.
    A real beautiful slab.

    Did you get a length on that pig?

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  2. Record or not, thats one hell of a perch!
    Congrats.

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  3. Found your blog on OBN. I like it and will "follow" along. :)

    the Average Joe Fisherman
    http://averagejoefisherman.blogspot.com/

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  4. That perch is slabilicious! Very nice.

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