Steve Pollick: ‘Perch hunting’ tough business, but worth it on Lake Erie

It was a promising mid-August morning, weather-wise, on western Lake Erie and fishing buddy Steve Hathaway and I decided go perch hunting.
Yes, perch “hunting,” not fishing. That was because despite ideal moderate weather and a perfect 10 mph southwest breeze churning up easy one-footers, the fabled yellow perch were hiding. It seemed clear as we cleared the Portage River channel at Port Clinton, Ohio, that a pack of boats had decided that the fishing was “on” outside of the northeast corner of the “Picket Fence.”

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