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 ...

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 catching perch and panfish. I bait up the rig with live minnows and talk ...

Hello folks, the other day we went ice fishing on some local ice aiming to catch some bluegills and perch. We geared up with tiny hooks, tiny pieces of cut minnow, little jigging spoons, and even ...

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 ...

Lake Erie walleye fishing is excellent with high catch rates and a large population. Anglers are favoring walleye fishing due to its success, leading to reduced pressure on yellow perch. The walleye ...

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 ...

Winter temperatures returned with a bit of snow, but the recent rain helped the tributaries. Spring has arrived but it sure doesn’t feel that way. The Buffalo Niagara Boat Show at the Niagara Falls ...

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 ...

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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 ...

It was a successful perch contest Saturday run by the Southtowns Walleye Association, but perch action is slowing a bit. May should be a bust-out month. May 1 kicks off walleye, northern pike, ...