Fishing Tips: Gogebic has a maximum depth of 38 feet, and its jumbo perch are usually found roaming the lake's deep mud flats, where they search for insect larvae.

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.

Mohnton resident Christopher Barrett, 19, recently caught an unusually large white perch while out fishing. The fish, which weighed over two pounds, broke his state's record.

Redears are mostly a fish of reservoirs and larger ponds, particularly those with sandy bottoms and good stands of aquatic vegetation. For sunfish, they can get big — 1-pounders are not uncommon ...

The 18 perch in 16,000 feet of graded mesh was an extremely low 1.1 fish per 1,000 feet of net. The catch-per-effort has been depressingly low for many years; in 2014, it was 0.89, lowest on record.

This will allow you to present up to two baits off the bottom and in the strike zone of schooling perch. Minnows, wax worms, spikes and shrimp are all dynamite baits for Lake Michigan perch.

Perch fishing on southern Lake Michigan leads this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report; and there’s ice fishing, at least in the Northwoods. Nate Torres emailed the photo at the top and this: ...

Surf perch can be found on all the coastal beach areas. Some of the more popular locations are the Westport and Ilwaco jetties, Cranberry Beach in Grayland, Kalaloch Beach and near the Tokeland jetty.

Don’t you remember your heavy birch pole, and your thick twine line, and your ringed perch-hook tied on with a dozen knots, and with a shingle-nail for a sinker and a pickle-stopper for a bob ?

MUSKEGON, MI – When the perch fishing stunk around here in the spring and summer months, fishermen could easily get drawn into a conversation about the lack of perch. Maybe the timing was just ...

Summer perch fishing has started with a blast on Lake Michigan in recent weeks. ”Perch by the hundreds” and ”baskets of jumbos” are two phrases that tell the story at Chicago harbors and ...