This double came just moments of setting up on a new rockpile. The smallmouth were very cooperative and Pure Fishing Managers Steve, from Malaysia, and Kuni, from Japan, took advantage. Rockpiles in 8-12 feet on Spirit Lake were the productive spots. Flicker Shads size 6, finesse football jigs tipped with a 3 inch creature bait, [...]
Iowa Fishing
Iowa Removes Thousands of Carp. Gives them to New York.
Coralville Lake, a large reservoir just north of Iowa City, Iowa, has a ton of carp and buffalo fish, but commercial anglers are enjoying hauling them out of there and shipping them to New York. According to KCRG.com, commercial fishermen, recreational fisherman, and a semi-truck driver hauled thousands of pounds of carp and buffalos out [...]
More than I bargained for.
An absolutely beautiful fall day in Iowa brought about one of the best catches of my fishing career. While on the water with my brother, Marty, chasing smallmouth and walleye with jerkbaits I set up on a nice rock point. I predicted a big walleye for Marty and two cast later I set the hook on what I knew [...]
Two Missouri Men Face 74 Counts of Killing Sturgeon
A duo of Missouri men traveled to Iowa, and they are coming home with a mess of charges thanks to illegally killing shovelnose sturgeon. Robert Housman and Michael Dye were fishing on the Mississippi River when they were nabbed netting sturgeon in in Louisa County, Iowa. Housman faces 35 counts of unlawful take and possession of [...]
The GoFISHn Line-The Best Catches and Fishing News: Half-Ton Sturgeon, $1,000,000 Record Tuna, and More!
There are a lot of awesome posts on GoFISHn throughout the week. Here are 10 of our most popular, most recent GoFISHn updates: 1,000-Plus-Pound Sturgeon Landed in British Columbia – A half-ton dinosaur landed in the Fraser Grouper Grabs Spearfisherman’s Catch: Crazy Video! – There’s always a bigger fish in the sea! Is this Evidence of Underwater [...]
Iowa Teenagers Catch 5,000-year-old Bison Skull
A handful of Iowa teens snagged a prize catch they’ll certainly never forget. From Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Cody Sprague described the catch with predictable teenager apathy. “It was pretty cool,” said Sprague, who was netting minnows when he snagged the skull, which scientists estimate to be that of a bison at least 5,000 years old. [...]
Hurricane Isaac on Path to the Gulf
The Republicans are all heading down to Tampa, Florida, and Isaac is heading up. The enormous tropical storm is expected to hit the greater Tampa area early next week and make landfall around the Mobile, Alabama area. Terms like “category 1,” on a scale of 1 to 5, only really seem not-that-bad to people that [...]
The GoFISHn Line-The Best Catches and Fishing News: Lizard-Eating Bass, Record Brown Trout and More!
There are a lot of awesome posts on GoFISHn throughout the week. Here are 10 of our most popular, most recent GoFISHn updates: A Lizard-Eating Largemouth Bass – Maybe it’s time to break out the BIG creature baits Wisconsin Brown Trout Officially the New Catch-and-Release Record – It’s official, the longest brown trout ever caught. Man Pulls [...]
Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan a Noodler?
Ronald Reagan declared June 25 as National Catfish Day and now another notable Republican maybe advancing the catfish cause even further. Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan was in Texas recently where he praised the state’s love of freedom, called out President Obama on some choice issues, and heralded his love of noodling. While getting the crowd [...]
Iowa Men Charged with Noodling
Noodling, the practice of grabbing catfish by the jaws and hoisting them onto the riverbank, is as popular in some places and has lead to plenty of great reality TV, but it is frowned upon in others. Unfortunately for four men in Iowa, noodling is not all the rave and is in fact illegal. On [...]
