This is one of two perch I caught at Kensico yesterday. They were both 11 inches and returned to the reservoir. (For a long time, I mistook them for smallmouth bass.)
"Mr. Gant, as you would be aware, I am not interested in the life of one rogue pilot with a poor health record."--The First Secretary, Firefox (1982)
"I played them all the old songs I thought that's why they came But no one heard the music I didn't look the same"--Rick Nelson ("Garden Party")
"The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal." --C. S. Lewis, Shadowlands (1993)
"I want sleep, not followers!"--Dimitri Cavalli
"Dimitri Cavalli ponders his fate as he looks at the world for the last time and sees only darkness. But in that darkness, fate moves its huge hand."--The Deep-Voiced Narrator