It's late October and we're out at Lake Erie on Point Abino fishing for perch. It's a great time of year for perch fishing. Today we're using live minnows and we're running the T-Turn Bait Rig (1A).

Time to get into those jumbo Lake Erie perch! I've got my 1A T-Turn Bait Rig set up (the one designed for panfish) and live ...

Slab crappies are meat eaters—sure enough minnow munchers. They take artificials well at times, especially jigs—but big crappie will turn their noses at even the best of the best crappie lures.

Water level is 7.36 feet low and fairly clear. Water temperature in the low 80s. Crappie guide Blake Ostrich says fishing has been good around brush piles in 15 to 22 feet, mostly minnows. Look for a ...

CATCHES OF THE WEEK Mary Vang caught a catfish, estimated to weigh between 10-12 pounds, using a jig head at Ute Lake with a 3-inch Gulp minnow on Sept. 20. Jeremy Pitts caught a 37-inch tiger muskie ...

85 degrees. Trout are fair on live shrimp, or piggy perch in flats and along channels. Redfish are great on shrimp, mullet ...

Charette Lakes: Fishing for trout was good when using silver-and-yellow Panther Martin spinners. Cimarron River: Streamflow near Cimarron Wednesday morning was 12.5 cubic feet per second (cfs).