Local Anglers Off and Reeling!

Somewhere in the channel between Lake Simcoe And Lake Couchiching is a $500 perch with a headache. Twelve-year-old Jody Croon of Orillia was fishing from a dock in The Narrows when he spotted one of the 62 tagged fish in the Orillia Perch Festival. He let down his line so fast the sinker bonked the perch on the head. "It took off after my sinker hit it," said Croon. "I don't know where it went after that." Croon is one of the hundreds of anglers of all ages trying their luck in the 12th annual Perch Festival, running from April 24 to May 15.