A BUCKET OF TWENTY ONE YELLOW PERCH DEMONSTRATES VICTORY.

The yellow perch were the biggest I've ever seen. Any one of these would have been a trophy at Buffinville Damn or Queen Lake. Dad would have been pleased with this.

Equipment check complete

I checked over the tilts and all of the flags are working properly. Four of them have killer double hooks on wire leaders that Dad bought for his last ice fishing adventure at Sodus Bay in 2003. One of them has no hook at all. The jigging stick seems fine but could surely use a new line. I'm not going to change it. We'll give the perch a fighting chance in our comeback tour. The chisel is covered in rust but should be ok. It was expertly crafted at some machine shop in Worcester, by a friend named Lefty or Shorty or somebody like that. We have three of them and I remember the Christmas when I received mine.