Several years ago, I had the opportunity to experience hound hunting for the first time in the mountains of Idaho. I will never forget the hounds man’s yarn in the waning hours of our final hunting day; “Cat hunting is hours of mind-numbing boredom followed by moments of pure exhilaration.” As it did with that hunt, a recent bobcat hunt in Michigan would hold the same lessons taught decades earlier!

The term “jumbo” doesn’t really do justice to the yellow perch anglers who fish Gogebic Lake in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula target. The Fishing 411 crew headed north to sample this unique fishery first hand. We discovered that anglers who target perch on Lake Gogebic don’t have to exaggerate because the perch they catch are impressive by any measure.