My brother fishes Erie hard during the warm weather months. They focus mostly on perch. He's running a 27 foot boat now with good electronics. They've gotten to the point where they have a pretty good handle on getting the big perch. They are taking fish in the 12 to 16 inch range pretty frequently. He does some killer fish fries a few times a year, and we always have a big fish fry the weekend bedfore deer season opens up at camp in Pa. Just about evey year they tangle with something very big that they never get a look at. He figures it's a big walleye or a sheephead, but they locked into something last year that literally spun his boat end for end as he fought it. 'Burned up the drag system on his Penn spinning reel and eventually broke the line.
