Yellow perch bite firing up on Lake Erie’s Western Basin

After a cooler early summer, the surface water temperatures in Lake Erie’s Western Basin exceeded 80 degrees following weeks of scorching temperatures in the 90s, as recorded in Toledo.
Spiny water flea densities decline under these circumstances and to satisfy their ravenous appetites as their metabolism red lines, yellow perch switch from almost exclusively feeding on them and insect larvae to smaller prey fish.

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