Perch fishing offers the finest of simple pleasures. Among freshwater fish, the yellow perch’s sweet, white meat is arguably the best eating, rivaling fresh walleye fillets. These fish are also among ...

Ashton Laird shares a picture of some monster yellow perch caught recently. Lairds adds, “Some of the fish weigh more than 2-pounds and are hitting artificial lures.” Photo by Devin Pleace Every ...

Modern forward-facing sonar has transformed once-elusive, nomadic, suspended fish into highly catchable targets, with few species offering a better example of this than the white perch. By ...

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We're out on the water at Windmill Point today with the T-Turn Bait Rig baited up with live minnows and fishing for yellow ...

Idaho’s Lake Cascade is one of North America’s premier fisheries for big yellow perch like these jumbo specimens caught through the ice. Provided by Jordan Rodriguez In the pale morning light, the ...

In warmer waters, perch are more aggressive and more likely to chase down larger, flashier lures. A faster retrieve can often ...

Lake Erie, long promoted rather immodestly as the walleye capital of the world, draws anglers not unlike a singular watering hole pulls in thirsty wanderers from a parched savannah. Not everyone who ...

Wow, it’s February and we are past the half- way point in our winter. I always think of the hard or cold core of winter as being January and February. So now that we are over halfway through winter, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Prospects for walleye fishing on Lake Erie continue to be outstanding, according to the most recent trawl surveys reported by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Each year, ...

For the first time, the Department of Natural Resources is slapping a special fishing regulation on perch caught on Mille Lacs Lake, lowering the daily bag limit from 20 to five. The reduced limit, in ...

An observation not intended to cause controversy has garnered some passionate responses. Last Sunday's outdoors column shared that daily catch limits for yellow perch and walleye would remain the same ...