Monkfish are pretty gnarly looking sea dwellers, and a monster specimen of the monster fish was just landed in Iceland. Fishing off the coast of Sauðanes, Iceland, at a depth of 180 feet, anglers caught a 50-inch long, 34-inch wide, 57-pound monkfish. The monster monkfish was taken to the market, where the average fish is less than 8 [...]
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Water Monster Spotted in Iceland
The Loch Ness Monster of Iceland has been spotted, and it's not a blurry photo this time. The London Telegraph has exclusive video footage of a river worm that may be the legendary Lagarfljot river worm, Icelandic version of the the Loch Ness Monster. According to Discovery.com, though, this may just be another big hoax. The snake [...]
Tourists Eating Shamu: The Ethics of Iceland Whale Meat
Would you eat a whale fillet?Since Iceland resumed whale hunting in 2006, the consumption of delicious, dark-red whale meat has been on the rise, but mainly among tourists. According to one study more than 40 percent of whale meat produced in Iceland is sold to tourists, and has started campaigns agains the consumption such as [...]
German Angler’s Record Halibut Confirmed
This halibut, which tipped the scales at 485 pounds, is the largest ever caught by a sea angler. According to Metro, the fish stretched the tape at just longer than 8 feet and took more than two hours to land. Gunther Hansel caught the fish in August. "This is the fish I have been fishing [...]
Famous Fisherman Statue Stolen!
Some people have no sense of honor. Last night, one of the Hull, England's most famous maritime statues was stolen. Somehow a 5-foot tall bronze statue in the shape of a man, weighing 300 kilograms and on top of a 7-foot pillar disappeared. The monument is dedicated to lost fishermen from Hull and Iceland. Police [...]
Iceland Now Offers Whale Harpooning Watching
Instead of whale watching, Iceland is now offering whaler watching where tourists can experience a day in the life of a whaler. Whale Watching With Whalers offers tourists the opportunity to see whales, see and hear harpoons being shot, taste whale meat, and see the internal organs of a minke whale. According to The Guardian, [...]
Babe Winkelman’s Daughter’s First Tarpon
From the looks of this video, perhaps Amy Winkelman learned more about acting than tarpon fishing from her father. You might recognize the name from the popular television show, Good Fishing With Babe Winkelman that first aired in the mid 1980s. We thought for sure she had a 200-pound fish when she nearly went over the [...]
Ireland and Iceland Fight Over Mackerel Fishing
Iceland and the Faroe Islands are making Ireland pretty angry over their mackerel fishing practices. The countries, which are outside the EU, are supposedly grossly overfishing mackerel at an unsustainable level. According to RTE News, the Irish Minister for Agriculture, Food, and the Marine, Simon Coveney, claims that because of Iceland and the Faroe [...]
Two of the World’s Most Popular Sports, Fishing and Soccer, Collide
I've seen this on SportsCenter the past two days, and, as usual, Field&Stream's Joe Cermele beat me to the punch in posting this video on the magazine's Honest Angler blog. Soccer goal celebrations are usually pretty crazy, probably because there are so few goals in a game. Well, a group of Icelandic footballers evidently are [...]
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