When I was a kid, we used to camp at our family friend place at Lac Campion (smallish lake connected to Lac des Sables) up in North Outaouais. We had a floating dock and for years there was always a big fish going around it once in a while and scaring the crap out of us as kids. We eventually ended up catching it after several years. It was an humongous perch around 12 inches. Its dorsal fin was heavily damaged, probably from the numerous pikes that are everywhere in the lake. Kinda felt like we just removed the big boss from the lake.
Fun story, I'm the only one in the family (parents and 1 brother) to have never catched a pike. Plenty of perch and bass (and probably the biggest bass out of our family fishing trips), but never a pike. Can't beat my dad though as his biggest fish is an Halibut as part of his job when he was on a boat working for Fisheries and Ocean Canada.
Haven't fished since probably 2008 or so though. Either due to summer jobs (2008-2012) or being alone in Montreal (2012-...).