Wilkowski reeled in the line and pumped the rod as 10-inch perch came into view. Wilkowski admired it briefly, then returned it to the water. He and his fishing partner, Derry Hannula of West Bend ...

There have been reports of anglers carrying home buckets of 8- to 10-inch perch. The Curlew perch are definitely getting smaller, as predicted by a game warden I talked to on the lake three years ago.

By size, there were 22.3 perch in the 5- to 8-inch range, compared with an average of about 10; 8- to 10-inch perch, 4.9 per net, up from an average of about 2.5; and 0.1 perch per net in the 10 ...

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 ...

A 10-inch perch is about as large as an Eloika Lake perch has grown. Walleye fishing on Rufus Woods Reservoir’s Nespelem Bar has been decent at times recently. As always, it is best if there is ...

The 10- to 12-inch perch were at 4.1 per net, compared with the average of 2.4; 8- to 10- inchers, at 5.7 per net, were up from the average of 3.2; and the jumbos were at .9, compared with the ...

The 15- to 20-inch walleyes also posted a record of 12.3 per net, double the average of six per net. Perch numbers also were above average, Game and Fish Department surveys showed.

Perch schools move around constantly. Boaters must make reconnaissance runs each day -- sometimes each hour -- to get over good packs of perch. But school they do. Older, bigger perch are back in ...