Despite winter seeming bleak, the season offers birdwatchers the chance to see visitors like purple finch — and opportunities ...

A recent survey shows one of the largest Lake Erie walleye hatches in the last 40 years. Walleye fishing generates an estimated $1 billion in economic activity for Ohio. Ohio lawmakers are considering ...

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department is planning to stock adult yellow perch into Devils Lake next spring as part of a “trap-and-transport” effort to boost populations of the tasty panfish, which ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Lake Erie’s huge schools of walleye are gorging themselves on gizzard shad right now, including toothy females fattening up for the spring spawning season arriving in March and April ...

Hidden among the tourist shops and fudge emporiums of Mackinaw City sits a culinary treasure that locals have been quietly enjoying for years – the Keyhole Bar & Grill, where the perch sandwich defies ...

BAY CITY, MI — A new Saginaw Bay reef is ready for tenants. The Great Lakes Fishery Commission says it finished construction of the new Channel Island Reef on Oct. 10 roughly a month after crews began ...

The Department of Natural Resources’ weekly fishing report for Oct. 22 shows some of the most current conditions in the region and best methods. This week’s report included a fishing tip regarding ...

Western Lake Erie anglers have been scratching their heads this summer, wondering why yellow perch, one of the bread-and-butter catches of the region, just aren’t biting. Reports of poor fishing have ...

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, ...

Yellow perch are showing signs of annual reproduction and survival of young fish in the Wisconsin waters of Lake Michigan, although at much reduced numbers than 30 years ago, according to a Department ...