Yellow perch has hard time getting foothold in region By DARYL BAUER / Nebraska Game and Parks Commission Jan 31, 2016 Updated Feb 6, 2017 0 ...

Big yellow perch are being caught again around the Lake Erie Islands this week. Bernie Weiss of Indianapolis shows off a jumbo caught on Thursday east of the Perry Monument on South Bass Island.

Yellow perch catches brightened the Marblehead Lighthouse Festival last Saturday. As thousands visited the lighthouse on its 200th anniversary, about 100 small fishing boats anchored just offshore ...

The perch were concentrated in the open water over weed beds about 40 to 60 feet from the bank. I kept a bunch in the 8- to 10-inch range, along with releasing smaller fish.

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 ...

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.

Perch fishing offers the finest of simple pleasures. Among freshwater fish, the yellow perch’s sweet, white meat is arguably the best eating, rivaling fresh walleye fillets.

Point taken. It was not weighed. The Indiana record for yellow perch remains the one of 2 pounds, 8 ounces caught by Roy Burkel Jr. in 1981 from a Vigo County gravel pit. It’s worth a full view.

The yellow perch is one of them, providing some of the last action of the open-water season, as well as when a layer of safe ice covers lakes and reservoirs and hard-water anglers continue the quest.