A Good Year on the Susquehanna Flats This year the warm winter with no snowmelt up north allowed me to start guiding on the Susquehanna Flats in late March. The water temperature was 58.2 degrees on March 30th and 59.5 degrees on May 3rd, the last day of the catch and release season. It turned [...]
Catch-and-release Fishing
Catch and Release Minnesota Walleye Record a Hoax?
Last week, we reported about Don Mickel, a fishing guide in Bemidji, Minn. who supposedly caught a walleye that would break the Minnesota record, but was told to release it. But, since his story broke, Mickel has heard from quite a few critics who don’t believe his fish is a record at all.w “Based on [...]
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13-Plus-Pound Bass Found in Georgia Public Fishing Area
Georgia is home to one of the most famous bass ever caught, the George Perry, 22-pound, 4-ounce bass landed in Montgomery Lake is still recognized as the largest largemouth ever landed, but there is a bass in Ocmulgee Public Fishing Area that’s gaining on it. During a Georgia Department of Natural Resources survey, officials found [...]
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Smallmouth Bass Killing Native Fish in Arizona
The roundtail and headwater chub are protected native fish in Arizona’s Fossil Creek, and the smallmouth bass are gobbling them up. “Right now we can’t say for certain how the smallmouth bass got above the upstream temporary barrier at Fossil Creek,” said Fisheries Chief Kirk Young. “These bass definitely pose a threat to the native [...]
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Spring Time Stripers
Spring Time Stripers Hello Ned and Brian love your new layout . I just wanted to be the 1st to throw up a post. So here goes. Spring has arrived early this year with that all of the flowers and especially the trees are turning white. Ever year i watch the pear Trees and there’s [...]
A Story of Very Unlikely Odds
Yesterday, my brother and I were fishing two private, adjacent lakes for bass, when he hooked up on a decent bass throwing a dinger worm. On the hookset, the knot snapped. He tried to catch it again for 25 minutes but found no luck. We fished all the way around the lake and about an [...]
Great Walleye action ahead.
It looks to be another fantastic year for walleye fishing on the Iowa Great Lakes. While fishing for smallmouth bass several walleye crashed the party. These male walleye had moved up on the shallow rocks to start the spawn. walleye season is still closed until the 1st. weedkend of May which marks The Great walleye [...]
Record Sea Trout Landed in Sebastian, Fla.
Since 2010, the IGFA has kept all-tackle length records to promote catch and release and record keeping at the same time. And a new mark has been set in the sea trout category.On Feb. 22, Gary Beach and Capt. Gus Brugger were out in the Indian River Lagoon near Sebastian, Fla., when Beach hooked into [...]
The Hunt for Hawg Belly Pike
The Hunt for Hawg Belly Pike – by Leisure Outdoor Adventures Share One of the most exciting fish to catch in Minnesota and the provinces of Canada is big northern pike. Big pike, for many anglers, has gone from a childhood trophy to a secondary fish in many waters, but we at LOA see big [...]
Catch and Release Tiger Trout Recorded in Utah
On February 16, Trent Perry's 15-pound tiger trout made a lot of news when it broke the Utah record.Well, there was a trout just as noteworthy caught from the same body of water, Scofield Reservoir, and St. George Utah.com just clued us in. Zane Nielsen was ice fishing on Scofield when he landed a 27-inch [...]
