ORTONVILLE, Minn. | OK. I’ve never been able to keep a secret, and I’m not going to start now. So, here it is. There is an incredible perch bite going on Big Stone Lake in northeastern South Dakota.

ORTONVILLE, Minn. | Big Stone Lake is a 26-mile long fish factory. Long known for its excellent walleye fishing, and in the past few years an exploding perch population, few anglers are aware of the ...

Big Stone Lake: The perch bite on this Minnesota/South Dakota border lake remains solid and is expected to improve as water temperatures cool. The walleye bite has been consistent all summer and bass ...

Joe Kaseforth of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources fisheries office in Ortonville handles a Lake Sturgeon caught for analysis in Big Stone Lake. Minnesota's largest fish species was ...