Ohio Department of Natural Resources and Division of Wildlife set up an investigation, code name: SnagEye. After receiving some tips from their poaching tip line, they started investigating operations of illegal snagging and over limit catches of saugeye. In the end, they charged 16 individuals with 35 different counts of illegal fishing. The defendants were sentenced [...]
Snagging Fishing
24-Hour Fish-A-Thon Raises Money, Cleans the Streams, Across the U.S.
From Recycled Fish Executive Director, Teeg Stouffer: The details from the 2012 Recycled Fish 24 Hour Fish-A-Thon presented by Berkley Fishing are still rolling in, but the early indication is that anglers east of the Rockies battled high winds. Across the country, rain, heat, cold, wind – even hail – made fishing challenging for our [...]
Stunning Photos: Sailfish Snagging Sardines
Swordfish can swim up to 70 miles per hour. These sardines didn’t have a chance. Reinhard Dirscherl was able to capture these the photographs while snorkelling in the Caribbean off Mexico, according to the Daily Mail. “The sailfishes follow the sardines in groups like wolves,” said Dirchserl. “I watched as they circled around the schooling [...]
Vancouver Anglers Want to Make it Harder to Catch Fish
While most of us are struggling to find ways to make catching fish easier, four men have so much experience and talent on one particular river, that they want to make it harder. Four of Vancouver’s most seasoned and experienced anglers, David Anderson, Bob Hooton, Gary Horncastle and and Joe Saysell are pushing for even [...]
YouTube Video of Sturgeon Killers May Lead to Tighter Restrictions
Here’s a bright idea: if you’re dumb enough to break fishing regulations, don’t be doubly dumb and videotape it for the world to see. Apparently that message never got through to a group of California men that posted videos on YouTube of themselves snagging and killing endangered green sturgeon in the San Joaquin-Sacramento River system [...]
Kingfisher Nabs Minnow for Her Babies. Must See Pics.
Every mom must provide for her babies, and when that mom is a kingfisher, that usually means some fish are involved. Joe Petersburger captured the amazing scene of a kingfisher swooping down, snagging a minnow, and bringing it back to her nest in the Daube Delta in Romania, according to the Daily Mail. “Kingfishers have a [...]
Is New Jersey’s Best Freshwater Fishery Haunted?
Something is fishy at Round Valley Reservoir, and it’s not just the record-sized fish being caught. Field & Stream relayed this story about the reservoir in New Jersey that seems to be mysteriously more dangerous than most. According to NJ.com, Round Valley Reservoir in New Jersey’s Clinton County has claimed the lives more than a dozen [...]
South Dakota Paddlefish Opens with 59-Pounder
The paddlefish season opened on May 1 in South Dakota, to the delight of all those who love snagging the prehistoric beasts, and the season started out with a monster. Jim Cadwell, of Chamberlin, landed a 47-inch, 59-pound paddlefish while fishing Lake Francis Case, which was the first time the lake was open to paddlefish [...]
Walleye Charter Captains Battle State Over Boat and Personal Catch Limits
The walleye season is off with a bang in Lake Erie, but Ohio charter captains are worried that the state’s Department of Natural Resources are going to crack down on limits and hurt the industry. The problem really comes from the common practice of charter captains keeping tally of how many fish are in the [...]
Oregon Law May Prohibit the Most Effective Form of Fly Fishing
Drifting tandem flies, or even three-fly rigs is one of the best ways to get yourself into a hefty chinook salmon or steelhead in places like Oregon's Rogue River. But starting in 2013, anglers might have to change their tactics. Proposed legislation would outlaw using more than a single hook on some stretches of the [...]
