If you want to catch a limit or a new personal best perch this hard water season, you need the best ice fishing lures for perch.

Whether you're fishing for yellow perch or walleye, here are the best ice fishing lures for perch—many you can use with or without live bait.

Anglers are taking home their limits of perch recently as the action on Muskegon Lake and White Lake has improved drastically.

She said bloodworm is the best bait for white perch as well as for yellow perch. They also catch crappie and pickerel in the upriver stretch of the Great Egg Harbor River environs.

Best action for white perch — especially in coastal brackish waters — is at dusk when schools of them move into shallows to feed.

But why are there white perch in Lake Greenwood? Why are they in even smaller lakes like Lake Robinson, Cunningham, Bowen and Blalock? The answer there lies in the anglers who like to catch them ...

A lot of small perch are being caught just off the bottom while using jigs and maggots. The best perch action has been around the island in 10 to 15 feet of water. There is 10 to 12 inches of ice.