The 40 Anniversary of the Orillia Perch Festival is still on!
The Festival has had to adjust to the Covid-19 restrictions and has made the event possible with a virtual format.
The anglers still have to catch perch and can use their cell phones linked to their registration numbers to submit a picture of the perch they caught.
Adults and kids still have their own categories.
The Tagged Perch are now in a Geofencing area which is a containment field of GPS locations of Lakes Simcoe and Couchiching and Simcoe County. Random GPS scans will locate the winning angler by using their picture submission location. This requires all anglers to agree to the Perch Festival accessing their phone’s GPS location. This method should actually increase the number of tags caught.
The 2021 Orillia Perch Festival runs April 17 to May 15, which offers 29 days of Fishing.
Adults $25. Kids $5.
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Organizers say, “Yes, we are honouring last year’ Paid registration. We will be contacting you soon on how to re register.” If you do not hear from us by the beginning of April please check with the Chamber 705-326-4424 or info@orillia.com.