Fishing solo, I launched the old Bass Tracker onto Mason Lake for a try at perch. First time I have targeted perch for many years. They are my favorite eating fish and so prolific I don't feel guilty keeping a few. I did, however bring my bass fishing gear. It was very cool and very foggy as I launched. Started by casting Rapalas on the clear water's smooth surface. Also fished jigs along the docks. No bass strikes. Mason has always been a tough bass lake for me but I did get lucky back on May 31,1998 and hooked a very nice 18 inch, 3 pound, 7 ounce beauty on a floating Rapala. That bass is still my current lake record. Anyway, back to the perch fishing. I needed some bait to catch the first perch so I dug around in our compost pit and found a couple. The first fish hooked was a little 5 inch sculpin. He was fileted out for bait and that meat lasted all day. Left the skin on the filets and it stayed with the hook very well. Next I caught some perch, some rock bass and one little largemouth bass -- all on sculpin meat. The fish were released except a few nice perch that I invited to dinner and a little 6 inch rock bass that I had to kill to remove the hook. Later the sun came out and it was very nice on the water -- except for one homeowner. He spotted me fishing along his dock and boiled out of his house like a raging bull. He ordered me to stay out 200 yards from the shoreline and to leave the lake immediately. He said he had got my boat numbers and was calling the sheriff. And, threatened that if I didn't leave immediately he was getting in his boat and come out for a confrontation. Now fellow anglers, I have always been very considerate of home owners and this jerk was the first ever to go into a rage about me fishing his dock. Not wanting a confrontation, I moved on down the lake. Hope the sheriff shows up, I'd like to tell him my side of the story.