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, [...]
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1,000-Pound Tuna Landed in Nova Scotia
When you think 1,000-pound bluefin tuna, your mind probably goes to Prince Edward Island, but the cold waters off the coast of Nova Scotia was holding at least one, and Marc Towers was able to land it. Towers was fishing off the coast of Canso, Nova Scotia when the half-ton monster hit. The fish took two hours [...]
Man Steamed to Death at Tuna Canning Plant in California
The Bumble Bee fish factory in Santa Fe Springs, California, had a tragic accident this month when a man was “steamed to death,” alongside the tuna the factory produces. Now, consumers are worried that the tuna fish might be contaminated. However, factory officials have released a statement saying that a thorough investigation of the factory [...]
Hawaiian Fishermen Find and Fix Up Japanese Fishing Boat
It was a 16-foot fishing skiff that was docked on the coast of Japan. When the tsunami hit, the skiff set sail across the Pacific Ocean. According to ABC, that’s when the crew of the Zephyr found the boat, 700 miles off the coast of Maui, Hawaii, in tact, floating, and covered with barnacles. The Japanese [...]
Will Robotic Tuna be the Future of Homeland Security
If you hook a tuna in 2020, it might very well be a robot. According to the Underwater Times, the researchers at Homeland Security, in an effort to protect our harbors and shores, are designing what amounts to, in laymen’s terms, an electronic tuna. Apparently, the streamlined body form of the tuna is an ideal [...]
Is this Evidence of Underwater Aliens?
It has been said that we know more about outer space than we do about our own vast oceans. Here’s some creepy proof that that might very well be true. Diver and explorer Yoji Ookata discovered these mysterious imprints in the sand on a recent dive off the coast of southern Japan. The imprints were [...]
Alligator Gar Smuggler Gets Jail Time
Nine months in federal prison. That’s apparently the penalty for catching and illegally selling alligator gar in Texas. Loren Willis, of West Palm Beach, Fla., tried to catch and sell gar in the state of Texas this past year, and now he’s paying the price. Willis, 63, was charged with catching and keeping alligator gar [...]
600-Plus-Pound Bluefin Landed in New Zealand
Paul Worsteling was fishing 31 miles off the coast New Zealand when he hooked into a monster, 606-pound bluefin tuna. According to LiveLink, it took two hours for Worsteling to land the tuna, which they are sending to researchers to test and see if there is radiation from Fukishima in the massive beast. The angler [...]
Woman Spends 8 Years Swimming with Dolphins in Hawaii
The call her the Dr. Doolittle of Dolphins. I don’t know if she talks with them, but Leina Sato has been accepted into the pod of spinner dolphins off the coast of Hawaii. Born in Japan, Sato, 26, moved to Hawaii when she was 15. According to the Daily Mail, she started swimming with dolphis eight [...]
Record Radiation Found in Japanese Fish
We’ve been tracking the impending problem following the 2011 tsunami in Japan, and it looks like the radiation leak in Fukushima has caused some big problems to the country’s fish. According to CNN.com, “radioactive cesium measuring 258 times the amount that Japan’s government deems safe for consumption has been found in fish near the damaged [...]
