I'm going to be doing one my favourite things today - fishing for perch! I'm using the T-Turn Bait Rig baited with live minnows and pitch casting in a fan around me while searching for the perch.

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 ...

We have a light wind on the Niagara River today while we vertically jig for perch. The first fish of the day on the first ...

BROWN ISN’T WORKING TODAY. Neither is white. Even orange on a green jighead isn’t getting bit. It’s a chilly sunny April day, and I’m out with Paula and Gordon in a Fletcher’s rowboat, bouncing tandem ...

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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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 ...

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 ...