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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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.

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, ...

Prized by both commercial netters and hook-and-line anglers, yellow perch these days could use help. A year ago the Ohio Division of Wildlife was forced by a prolonged decline in yellow perch to cut ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The results of the 2021 hatch survey for yellow perch in Lake Erie are in and it’s good news for the western basin, but not so good for the central basin. The hatch in the central ...