Since being restocked with fish following its refilling just over a decade ago, Leaser Lake has developed into a quality bluegill fishery, with excellent numbers of the always-eager-to-cooperate fish ...

Yellow perch are favorite for table fare in the Great Lakes region, and there is no better fishery for them than Lake Erie. While they can be taken from the lake all year, October is the best ...

The 2025 TAC for yellow perch, at 5.9 million pounds, is lower than last year’s 6.6 million pounds, a decrease of 700,000 pounds, or about 10.6%. Last year’s harvest of yellow perch totaled 3. ...

Yellow perch: What Lake Erie surveys say about fish hatches Trawl surveys done in the western basin last summer found 380 spring-hatched yellow perch per hectare, a measure equal to 2.47 acres.

Ruedi Reservoir anglers are catching lots of yellow perch this year, and it’s not a good thing. The species is considered invasive to waters of the Western Slope. As for the reservoir, 15 miles east ...

Yellow perch (Perca flavescens) make their spawning run from late February to mid-March and offer some of the earliest opportunities for sport fishermen to break out their rods and tackle. Their ...

This photo shows a nice yellow perch, the target of many anglers for an early spring fish fry in the Chesapeake and surrounding region. By Jim Gronaw UPDATED: June 29, 2019 at 5:09 a.m.

Three percent of just the 1.6 million fingerlings means 48,000 keeper-size yellow perch could be swimming around. The state will be checking Grand Lake to see if the program has been a success.

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.

Yellow perch (Perca flavescens) are caught in January and February as they move up rivers and creeks to spawn. They're one of the first fish in the bay to make a spawning run, making them a ...

Yellow perch also will compete with Kokanee salmon for food as well. “We have a hard enough time getting Kokanee to thrive at Ruedi,” Hebein said.