On Chautauqua Lake in midwinter, when the temperature hovers near zero and a stiff north or west wind drives wind chills into a double-digit chill factor, you know it’s cold. Ice anglers face a ...

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 ...

It was the booze talking, and they were well aware of that, so the Shaw brothers ordered up and pushed another boilermaker in front of Pete. The old-timer had made his season’s best catch of white ...

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, ...

As February crawls along, hundreds of thousands of winter-weary freshwater anglers focus their hopes on a fish that blessedly busts these depressing doldrums. “The white bass are here! And they’re ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learn how to use seasonal patterns, top baits, and sonar techniques to consistently catch New England’s elusive white perch. Modern forward-facing sonar has transformed once-elusive, nomadic, ...

Modern forward-facing sonar has transformed once-elusive, nomadic, suspended fish into highly catchable targets, with few species offering a better example of this than the white perch. By ...