National Fishing and Boating Week is June 1-8, a great time to put a focus on these popular water activities. Going ...

Want to catch a freshwater fish over 100 pounds? Learn where, when, and how to catch lake sturgeon in Wisconsin, Minnesota & Michigan.

With various well-renowned museums, art galleries, and performance centers, Syracuse is one of the most vibrant and popular ...

Teachers and school staffers who show their school ID at the Cayuga Lake Wine Trail will receive special discounts during spring break. The Cayuga Lake Wine Trail is holding a weeklong event to ...

Pictured are the winning anglers in the “King of Spring” yellow perch contest at Cayuga Lake. From left to right are Craig Sleeman, Fischer Sleeman and Ethan Sleeman. The family fishing team ...

With more than 7,500 lakes and ponds and 70,000 miles of rivers and streams in New York, the DEC’s resources help us all to know where to go and what to fish for. Gotta love the outdoors. April 5: ...

the DEC’s resources help us all to know where to go and what to fish for. Gotta love the outdoors. April 5: King of Spring Perch Tournament, Cayuga Lake, heaviest perch, $100 team registration ...

When Rose Thompson, of Skaneateles, went ice fishing for perch recently on the north end of Cayuga Lake she didn’t realize she’d need a bigger hole. Thompson dropped a homemade teardrop jig ...

Lake Erie walleye fishing is excellent with high catch rates and a large population. Anglers are favoring walleye fishing due to its success, leading to reduced pressure on yellow perch.

If you are ice fishing the embayments that border Lake Ontario, you have been blown about … whether in a shanty or not. We finally have safe ice, however the constant, infuriating wind we are ...

A table full of jumbo perch is the ultimate reward for a day of successful ice fishing. / Joe Shead Yellow perch are some of the tastiest freshwater fish that swim. For many, finding and catching ...

The Lake Michigan yellow perch population has shown signs of natural reproduction in recent years but the number of fish and angler harvest remain far below historical averages, according to ...