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How to Catch Saltwater Panfish on Your Family Vacation
Everyone loves the beach in the summer. It’s that time of year when families who don’t live on the coast flock to the surf, and many of them hope to get a little fishing in during their annual vacation. I often hear from readers and podcast listeners who don’t have easy access to saltwater, but still want to catch striped …
Read More »Watch: Large Paddlefish Stuck in North Dakota Ties State Report
On Might 3, simply two days into North Dakota’s temporary paddlefish snagging season, Tyler Hughes and his spouse have been at a main spot at the banks of the Yellowstone River. They have been fishing close to Fairview, kind of 5 miles upstream from the place the Yellowstone flows into the Missouri River. They’d spent the morning casting out a …
Read More »I soloed an 11 foot swordfish from my 17 foot boat
I first saw the swordfish at 7:50 in the morning, about 12 miles out. He was 50 yards away, swimming erratically and slowly. He was so big that I was a little afraid of him at first. I estimated he was over 10 feet long. When I saw him I was on my way to a spot 20 miles from …
Read More »Tournament angler catches record-sized bass in New York
Pennsylvania bass fisherman Jim Brittenbaugh dragged his 21-foot Stratos bass boat five hours from his home to Cayuga Lake in west-central New York earlier this week. He had gone there on July 11 to practice fishing for a two-day team bass tournament that began on July 12. Little did he know that while fishing with his buddy, he would catch …
Read More »Spearfisherman attacked by bull shark says it’s a ‘blessing’ he kept his hand
Shark encounters are a fact of life when spearfishing in the Gulf of Mexico. And Wesley Fayard, a veteran diver from Mississippi, has had his fair share of them. But on June 29, while diving about 50 miles offshore, he had his closest call yet. After spearing two mangrove snapper in deep water, Fayard was surprised by a 6-foot bull …
Read More »Nebraska fisherman catches trophy smallmouth, breaks Minnesota record
It was the third and final day of their father-son fishing trip when Xavier Bradely-Rael and his father, Larry, met their guide at the ramp on Basswood Lake. The pair had traveled there from Nebraska and had already enjoyed two great days of fishing on the Minnesota lake, which lies just south of the Ontario border. “We were looking for …
Read More »Hunting and fishing make people better environmental managers, research shows
A fisheries ecologist and professor at Ave Maria University recently led a team of researchers in A study who investigated the connection between recreational hunters and fishers and their environment. Their conclusion is one that many sportsmen have known for a long time: that hunting and fishing can make us better stewards of our land and water. The study authors …
Read More »Huge amberjack eating snapper breaks South Carolina record
Fishing buddies Jim Carroll and Gordon Jobe left Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, around dawn on May 23 to chase dolphins and wahoo at sea. They were aboard Jobe’s 32-foot Edgewater boat, Call for Freedomand after a morning of quiet trolling, they decided to change locations and tactics. “We fished a weed line for dolphin and wahoo for a while without …
Read More »Two hunting dogs were attacked by wolves in Wisconsin this summer
On July 3, just a few days into Wisconsin’s hunting dog training season, two hunting dogs were attacked by wolves on two separate occasions in the northern part of the state. One of the dogs, a two-year-old bluetick trailing hound, was killed, while the other dog, a four-year-old Walker trailing hound, was injured, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural …
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