Got out on KY Lake for a couple of hours Wednesday afternoon with a friend of mine from Michigan. We trolled cranks and did OK, had 14 decent keepers but no really nice crappie. We did have some cats, a keeper sauger, and one very nice yellow perch that hit one of my hand-painted cranks. Since the buddy was from Michigan and had fished for perch all his life, he was excited to be taking all the fish home with him. We measured the perch and it was almost 14 inches long and as big around as a tennis ball. I absolutely didn't think about it possibly being close to the state record, just the largest I've ever caught.

I may have messed up bad by not having it weighed and checking into the record books.