Yellow Lake Perch fished from the St Clair River, Lake St Clair and the Detroit River is generally a small sized fish, 11 inches is considered a monster by most sport anglers I know. And the two filets from a seven, eight or nine inch Perch are rendered quite small by pan frying. A satisfying dinner by volume is a minimum of six filets, with a go-with or two.
So feeding a family of five a fresh Perch dinner would usually require catch clean and cook 15 fish just for that one meal. That notion was overlooked in the article.
And then there are those of us who would scarf down way more than six filets at a sitting…
