Paul had never caught a walleye, plenty of bass, catfish, and panfish had bent his rod, but never a walleye. So when I told him his very 1st ‘eye was too big; well let’s just say I’m glad he was holding a fishing rod and not a gun. The Iowa Great Lakes have slot limit [...]
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California Trio in Hot Water for Poaching Sturgeon
California wardens have arrested three men on suspicion of sturgeon poaching on the Bear River, thanks to two tips from citizens. While serving search and arrest warrants at the suspects’ homes on May 12, Department of Fish and Game (DFG) wardens also discovered evidence of deer and bear poaching. Peter Anthony Gibbs, 25, Steven Michael Logan, [...]
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Kayak Angler Lands Record Largemouth From Blanco River, Texas
Kirk Colvin is a U.S. Navy helicopter search and rescue swimmer, a senior at Texas State University, and, now, the largemouth bass record holder for the Blanco River. According to the San Marcos Record, Colvin was fishing on his kayak about 100 yards from the confluence of the Blanco and San Marcos River, casting his [...]
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Famed British Columbia Duck Dies From Swallowing a Hook
There may not have been a more famous duck in all of Nanaimo, British Columbia as Bucky. Bucky was a wild duck that was abandoned and rescued by the Hinksman family, and became a mainstay in the town. Taking walks down to the Colliery Dam or Westwood Lake. His likeness even adorns a mural in the town’s Gyro [...]
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Gander Mountain Patron Lands a Spotted Owl
I don’t know much about this story, but I’d love to hear it. Gander Mountain posted on their Facebook page today a customer-submitted picture. Evidently, this spotted owl swooped down to grab a topwater frog bait and got hooked. Thankfully the angler was able to remove the hook, and the owl flew away relatively unharmed. [...]
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First Person Ever Convicted by Snag-Cam
The entire time that talentless “angler” Thomas Mullen, 57, was dragging weighted hooks across a salmon-stacked spawning ground on the River Ericht, he was being secretly filmed from the point of view of the fish. Worse for Mullen, is that the cameras were just installed a few hours before he arrived to “fish”. Sheriffs were [...]
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The First Record Burbot Landed in Illinois?
Capt. Tim Wojnicz is a Wisconsin-based fishing guide who may have a whole slew of new records in Illinois thanks to a 8.85-pound burbot. Wojnicz fishes out of Waukegan early in the season, and was out looking for perch on his FinQuest Charters, when he saw one of his rods really bent over. ‘‘I couldn’t [...]
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Fraser River guided Sturgeon Fishing British Columbia
Monster Sturgeon fishing – Legends are made here! We must give most of the credit to our prehistoric friends the Fraser river White Sturgeon, but putting in years of fishing and feeding behaviour study must offer us some credentials? Welcome to the world of Big Game freshwater fishing, on one of the worlds great rivers: [...]
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Awesome Start to the Season! May 1 Cape Cod Striper Report
I was all sorts of pumped up to get out striped bass fishing yesterday for the first time in 6 months. The strong wind, rain, fog and nippy temperatures were not going to deter me. It’s May on Cape Cod which means one thing – the bass are back! I’ve recently been receiving all sorts [...]
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Video of Pelican Rescued After Swallowing Fishing Hook
Every bird that eats fish suffers injuries from fishing hooks and line, according to Dr. Stefan Harsch, director of clinic operations at the South Florida Wildlife Center in Ft. Lauderdale. And their specialty is helping those birds out that swallow those hooks. Unfortunately, the Sun Sentinel doesn’t allow for video embeds, but if you’ve ever [...]
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