Another of Hostetler's friends was already anchored in the area. They reported the jumbo perch bite was slow, but steady, with lots of round gobies mixed in. Dunking a crappie rig weighed by a ...

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 ...

Yellow perch are some of the tastiest freshwater fish that swim. For many, finding and catching jumbo perch -- those that measure a foot or more -- is not only a passion, but an obsession. Here are ...

CHAUMONT, N.Y. – Every winter, the Chaumont-Three Mile Bay area on the southeastern shore of Lake Ontario is an ice fishing mecca in Upstate New York. Several thousand ice anglers come here from ...

Late winter often produces the biggest perch of the entire ice fishing season. The 60-degree sun beat down on me like a death ray. The foot or so of softening ice I stood on acted like a mirror, ...

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 ...

This isn’t necessarily what you would call run and gun fishing. But it is increasingly a game built on mobility. Catching yellow perch on Lake Erie — or on any of the Great Lakes, really — used to ...