What Yellow Perch Want on the Hook

When the yellow perch top out, you’ll experience an odd frustration as the sight of a feast becomes a sound barrier after the hook goes down. In clear water, perch is very visual feeding fish. They will chase a bait like a hound on scent trail. But if it doesn’t look right, or if presentation … Read more

The Bait Perch Prefer Over Everything

The common thing we often hear in angling circle is that bass and perch alike are hungry mouths looking to take any lure offered to them if it’s rigged correctly. But that simply isn’t true. Sure, they eat similar things from same body of water, but their feeding behaviors differ greatly. Bass are ambush feeder … Read more

Throwing Lures for Perch Instead of Bait

There comes a time in every angler’s life where sitting back and waiting for a bobber just doesn’t cut it anymore. Sitting on the bank waiting for something to happen can take hours before anything happens. Live bait fishing can work for perch, but it’s passive. How To Catch More Perch With Lures Why Moving … Read more

Why Anglers Chase Yellow Perch So Hard

When cold weather hits, something in an angler’s soul gets stirred up: We want something hard to catch that is small, fast, and will jump off of hook when caught. Enter the yellow perch. While present across all types of freshwater systems throughout North America, these fish eludes both the experienced and beginner angler alike. … Read more

Hard Baits and Spinners for Yellow Perch

Because Yellow Perch has a bit of everything, they can be tricky to catch. They’re both wary and aggressive. That makes careful presentation key. A presentation is more important than raw casting power. Most folks fires out hard baits in big loops trying to cover lots of water. That’s not going to work much with … Read more