Author: David Strege

A Georgia angler got confused hooking a fish, thinking it wasn’t a bass because it was fighting funny.But when Emerson Mulhall saw its color, the species at the end of his line became clear. It was a yellow perch, and a big one at that.“I was confused when I hooked the fish because it didn’t fight like a bass, which I usually go after, and then [I was] I was surprised when I saw the yellow color,” said Mulhall of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Division. “But [I] We were really excited when we realized it was…