My olive-hued bucktail jig settled to the rocky bottom of the reservoir. A few seconds later a light tick signaled a bite from the 12-foot depths. Moments later a fat yellow perch was on the ...

The fish reportedly came from the Delaware River in the Bordentown region of New Jersey, southeast of Trenton.

Along the weedy margins of lakes and slow rivers from the Great Lakes to the Carolinas, yellow perch are piling into the shallows this spring to breed. Water temperatures have crossed into the ...

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 ...

The Lake Michigan yellow perch population has shown signs of natural reproduction in recent years but the number of fish and angler harvest remain far below historical averages, according to ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Lake Erie yellow perch have been exceptionally difficult to find and catch in recent years along the Ohio shoreline, making the recent resurgence in the perch fishing around the ...

LANSING — The good multispecies fishing on the Upper Mississippi River has gotten even better with the recent population explosion of yellow perch. “It’s becoming a destination for perch anglers,” ...