After back-to-back extremely mild winters, that’d be a welcome sight for the guided fishing industry, and the related businesses that benefit. While waiting to go deep, many anglers are enjoying a ...

A column on the causes of low yellow perch numbers generated heated responses, so here's further explanation from the Ohio ...

From a guide to catching jumbo perch through the ice this winter to a dramatic ice failure video, these stories captured our ...

Trucks full of fresh cut trees arrived at a frozen Lake Wissota last week and are now being used to make “fish sticks” to ...

The weather gods have ice forming all over Western New York as we enter week three of January 2025. It’s good news for ...

COLUMBUS — Results from the annual Lake Erie fish surveys revealed that walleye hatches were below average and yellow perch hatches were above average in two of the three management zones, according ...

The Empire State is home to two of the top 10 ice fishing lakes in the country, including the coveted top spot.

Biologists refer to them as young-of-year (YOY), and for walleye those fish will be between four and five inches long — even smaller for yellow perch. While there had been six consecutive ...

Cameron Smith with his brand-new Eskimo ice fishing hut checked first ice last weekend near Burtis Bay on Chautauqua Lake to hook up with some yellow perch. Photo courtesy of Cameron Smith Ice ...

Based on the 2024 survey results, anglers can expect good yellow perch fishing in the western half of Lake Erie. Data from annual trawl surveys conducted by the Division of Wildlife are combined with ...