Yankee Pan Fish 



design by Charles Harper 



THE YELLOW PERCH is essentially a northerner, ranging from 

 lower Canada to the Ohio Valley, and from Minnesota to 

 the Eastern Seaboard. The southernmost reach of this perch is 

 in the Carolinas. His northern setting makes him a major objec- 

 tive of the growing clan of ice fishermen. These frostbite sports- 

 men eagerly cut through 14 inches of ice to drop a line to this 

 excellent food fish. The size of the average perch is well under 

 a pound. The world's record for yellow perch has been uncon- 

 tested since 1865: a doctor in New Jersey caught one that year 

 weighing 41^ pounds. 



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