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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A Good Year on the Susquehanna Flats
A Good Year on the Susquehanna Flats This year the warm winter with no snowmelt up north allowed me to start guiding on the Susquehanna Flats in late March. The water temperature was 58.2 degrees on March 30th and 59.5 degrees on May 3rd, the last day of the catch and release season. It turned [...]
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Nascar’s Ryan Newman’s Top 3 Fishing Race Tracks
Many of Nascar’s best drivers are also avid outdoorsmen, which shouldn’t come as a big surprise to anyone who is a racing fan. One of those avid anglers is Ryan Newman. Newman, who currently is 13 in the Sprint Cup Standings and had a win early this year in Martinsville driving his Army car, brings [...]
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Catching Tarpon on Tenkara?
Tenkara is all the rage right now among fly fishing enthusiasts. GoFISHn friend Tom Sadler is even guiding anglers in Virginia on the Japanese fishing technique. For those of you unfamiliar with Tenkara. Basically, it’s a telescoping rod, without a reel, or really any line other than your leader. It’s all about working your fly [...]
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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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Carolina Riggin’ at Falcon Lake With Vicious Fishing Pro Marty Stone
This week Vicious Fishing Pro Marty Stone gives us a few tips on Carolina Rigging with a Zoom Lizard over a roadbed for Pre and Post-Spawn fish for Tackle Warehouse. Enjoy some great fishing!
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Record Broadbill Swordfish Landed in New Zealand
New Zealand is no stranger to broadbill swordfish records, and a Kiwi angler will once again have his names in the IGFA books should everything be copacetic. Jim Gigger was using 81-pound tackle when he hooked into a 891.55-pound broadbill, a potential record for that line class, but evidently, the anglers had a Dangerfield-like disrespect [...]
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May 2012 Lake Lanier Fishing Report
It’s May and the fishing continues to be as great as the weather. The water temperatures have stabilized in the mid 70′s and the top water schoolers have started showing themselves. Captain Mack’s 3 1/2″ Grub Tails rigged on his 1/4 oz. Crystal Shad Jigheads attached to an A-Rig has been deadly on these fish. [...]
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IGFA Certifies New Snook Record Caught Fishing with Patrick Sebile in Florida
Patrick Sebile knows what catches big fish, how to catch them, and how to get other people to catch them. While fishing with Sebile and Capt. Andy Tasker in Indian River Lagoon near Stuart, Fla., Alexandre Lafage, of Saint Perdon, France hooked into a 36.22-inch snook that is now the IGFA all-tackle length record. “It was [...]
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Two 31-Plus-Pound Brown Trout Landed in Wisconsin Tournament
The Baileys Harbor Brown Trout Tournament entered its 24th year with a bang. In what some are calling a single tournament record, two anglers brought in 31-plus-pound trout to the scales. In the end, Jim Dequaine took the more than $1,500 prize back for landing a 31.9-pound brown trout. This to the chagrin of Ryan [...]
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