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 ...

It may be a brittle, icy white outside, but anyone who likes to fish is already dreaming in yellow -- as in yellow perch, little harbingers of spring massing in deep holes, preparing to run up ...

The 2025 fishing prospects around central Ohio might be good, but they have to be really good to approach those of Lake Erie. The smallest of the Great Lakes by volume, Lake Erie is the shallowest, ...

Today we're in the open water of Lake Erie looking for those jumbo perch. We're using the Stingnose Peanut Bunkers and jigging for those beautiful yellow perch. We're also tipping the Stingnose with ...

Yellow perch are showing signs of annual reproduction and survival of young fish in the Wisconsin waters of Lake Michigan, although at much reduced numbers than 30 years ago, according to a Department ...

LANSING — The good multispecies fishing on the Upper Mississippi River has gotten even better with the recent population explosion of yellow perch. “It’s becoming a destination for perch anglers,” ...

ERIE, Pa. (KDKA) -- While thousands of people were focused on the sky above Erie on Monday, a local guy was focused on the lake, where he was reeling in a record. The prized catch was a yellow perch ...

Identification: Yellow body with six to seven dark vertical bars. Average adult size is seven – 10 inches, but can grow much larger in some waters. Yellow perch are in the same family as walleye.

The Lake Michigan yellow perch population has shown signs of natural reproduction in recent years but the number of fish and angler harvest remain far below historical averages, according to ...

Even though Blas Lara didn’t win the Mayor’s Fishing Derby on Lake Michigan last month, he was still the talk of the tournament. That’s because Lara caught a jumbo yellow perch during the derby, ...

A phone call from a fishing buddy helped a Pennsylvania angler realize he shouldn’t filet the trophy fish he just caught. Chuck Main, 55, of Beaver County caught a yellow perch April 7 that rivals the ...