NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. - Lake Erie's fertile Western Basin has been slowly changing from a wonderful spawning ground for yellow perch and walleye to an ecosystem more friendly to invasive white perch, ...

“Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration.” Working from the whole glass “half full” side of things is ...

Dale Hines set the hook early Wednesday morning and added credence to the old adage, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” “We need to get the public educated that these aren’t a trash fish a ...

When Andy Grosko invited me for an outing trolling for white perch on Liberty Reservoir last October, I quickly accepted. I had some idea of his basic approach, and that it could produce more than ...

Unless they spent time in the Lowcountry, most old-time anglers in the Upstate don’t remember catching white perch. Old-timers wax poetic about white bass fishing on Lakes Greenwood and Hartwell, but ...

At first glance, it looks like a small white bass on the end of a fishing line. White Bass: When the spiny dorsal fin is pulled erect, the soft dorsal fin remains relaxed White Perch: When the spiny ...

A Pennsylvania teenager recently scored a lifetime achievement after reeling in a fish that broke his state's record, officials say. Mohnton resident Christopher Barrett, 19, caught an unusually large ...

Wachusett Reservoir is remarkable for producing record fish. The state records for brown trout, rainbow trout, smallmouth bass and landlocked salmon have all been caught there. And with Leominster’s ...

The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries recently certified a new state record for a white perch, which was caught on the North Carolina coast. The fish was caught on Jan. 7, which broke a record set in ...

Halfway between the I-95 bridge and the Conowingo Dam, a bald eagle stretches its wings over the Susquehanna River; in the rocky, tumultuous flow a White perch gulps down a weighted fly and three ...

Got one fish. Got another. Doubles! As the day goes on, this continues and what was fun and exciting at first turns into boredom. Why? Catching 6- to 8-inch long, stunted white perch one after the ...

Last weekend, the weather forecast was light winds and temperatures around 80, perfect for perch fishing at Lake Waccamaw. The 9,000-acre lake is the largest Carolina bay lake as well as the most ...