Big yellow perch are being caught again around the Lake Erie Islands this week. Bernie Weiss of Indianapolis shows off a jumbo caught on Thursday east of the Perry Monument on South Bass Island.

The immensely popular “King of Spring” yellow perch tournament on fish-filled Cayuga Lake last Saturday showed they come close. ... Single big fish “lunker” honors went to Travis Lisena with a ...

Yellow perch gold to symbolize the last month and be the year-end FOTW ... “So big they had to net it so it wouldn’t fall off,” he added. They had reasons beside size for using the net.

Then they decided to head to shore and have the big yellow perch weighed. They went to a Food Giant grocery store in Cadiz, where a night manager named Braxton weighed the fish on a certified scale.

Yellow perch catches brightened the Marblehead Lighthouse Festival last Saturday. As thousands visited the lighthouse on its 200th anniversary, about 100 small fishing boats anchored just offshore ...

If the run is starting in the big waters of the upper Potomac, we reasoned, it must be on in earnest in smaller creeks of Maryland's Eastern Shore, since shallow water warms quicker.

Either way, Main’s catch proves that Lake Erie is still producing plenty of whopper yellow perch. In addition to Rudzinski’s Pennsylvania record, both the Ohio and New York records were caught there.

The current record perch in Montana is a 14.375 inches long, weighed 2.39 pounds and was caught in Lower Stillwater Lake in 2016. The biggest challenge to catching perch is finding a school of big ...

The current record is a yellow perch caught by Kirk Rudzinski of Erie while fishing April 9, 2021, on Lake Erie. His fish weighed 2.98 pounds and the PFBC rounded the weight to 3 pounds.

Summer fishing and school's-out fishing, in all their manifestations and wide variety (hybrid striped bass, coho, yellow perch, cicada fishing, big carp), lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest ...