Commercial fisheries just about everywhere are home to substantial mixed stocks, but when carp and F1s are ravenous during the heat of summer, the perch seldom get a look-in. Once temperatures start ...

I'm out here on the eastern basin of Lake Erie with a bucket full of live minnows and a T-Turn Bait Rig made especially for ...

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A table full of jumbo perch is the ultimate reward for a day of successful ice fishing. / Joe Shead Yellow perch are some of the tastiest freshwater fish that swim. For many, finding and catching ...

The bait has a cool flutter action that can dart erratically around under the ice to create a larger strike zone. While there are a lot of different baits that work well for catching perch in the ...

Every angler out there has a special place in their heart for a certain species, and if you grew up in the Northeast or Midwest, it’s likely to be the yellow perch. These hardy little fish are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Missouri’s first record fish of 2024 is officially in the books. The 12-ounce yellow perch was caught by Jeffrey Needles on Lake Lotawana, a small, 600-acre lake southeast of Kansas City. Needles was ...

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 ...