Perch on crayfish diet

Crowded lakes made me take the small inflatable boat and head for a lake hidden in the forrest with no obvious spot to launch a big boat. It was a stroke of luck!

During a couple of hours approx 30 beautiful perch visited me in the boat. These perch seem to have crayfish as a diet hence the intense red coloring on the fins.

One perch got me thinking about a really old TV commercial that the Swedish Radiotjänst had many years ago. (Radiotjänst is entrusted by the Swedish Parliament to collect a radio and TV fee that every household and company that owns, rents or borrows a television receiver in Sweden has to pay.) The advertisement wanted to scare everyone that hadn't paid the fee to do so by a simple slogan: ”Vill du ha en snigel på ögat” freely translated ”Do you want a snail on your eye”. I believe this was before science showed that intimidation isn't that effective in advertisement... Aaaanyway this poor perch had an annoying leech on the eye.

The most action for the day was when I landed an almost 1 kg perch got it in the landing net (but still in the lake) got the wobbler into the water and got another almost 1 kg perch. Want to point out that the two perch in the picture only got out of the water to take the picture, catch and release of course!

When the two perch went back to the water and the wobbler hit the water again I had two followers (perch followers, not blog followers ;-P ) but to my surprise a pike was the fastest one to the wobbler.

Every day is a good day to fish =)