Fishing News
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife today introduced two new interactive fishing maps to help anglers find fishing locations in the agency’s Southwest Region. The Google-based maps detail 53 trout stocking sites around the Rogue, Umpqua and South Coast areas of Oregon as well as 50 places to go fishing within 60 minutes of [...]
Starting Thursday (Sept. 13), anglers fishing ocean waters off Westport can keep up to two coho salmon per day under a new rule approved by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW). The new rule brings the coho limit for those waters – previously set at one per day – up to the same [...]
Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Secretary John Griffin presented approximately $70,000 in cash, prizes and merchandise to lucky anglers this morning at the 2012 Maryland Fishing Challenge. Nearly 2,000 people, including sponsors, anglers and their guests attended the 8th annual contest’s closing ceremony at Sandy Point State Park. “The sport of fishing is a [...]
New York adopted the final changes to regulations that will reduce fishing mortality of river herring and create a sustainable fishery, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Joe Martens announced today. River herring (alewife and blueback herring) are anadromous fish that spend most of their life in the ocean but return to [...]
The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), in conjunction with the Friends of Sessions Woods, will host a FREE day of outdoor activities on Saturday, September 22, 2012, at the Sessions Woods Wildlife Management Area and Education Center in Burlington. The event celebrates the 75th Anniversary of the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration [...]
Red snapper fishermen, both recreational and commercial, will get a brief open season in September, according to NOAA Fisheries. The recreational season for red snapper will include two weekends, Sept. 14-16, and Sept. 21-23. Anglers will be allowed one fish per day with no minimum size limit. Only non-stainless circle hooks can be used, and [...]
The 2012 shrimp-baiting season will open at noon Friday, Sept. 14 in South Carolina waters. Mild winter weather allowed good numbers of overwintering white shrimp to spawn in the spring, producing at least average numbers of shrimp available for fall harvest. Recreational shrimpers who purchase a shrimp-baiting license can legally cast their nets for shrimp [...]
Researchers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are looking for anglers’ help to capture information about the important Atlantic red snapper fishery. The recreational red snapper season opens for two weekends this month in south Atlantic federal waters. FWC researchers, law enforcement personnel and [...]
Anglers will be allowed to retain adult hatchery chinook salmon along the 70-mile stretch of the lower Columbia River during a weeklong pilot fishery that starts Monday (Sept. 10). The new pilot fishery, approved by fishery managers from Washington and Oregon, will run through Sept. 16 from the Rocky Point/Tongue Point line upstream to Warrior [...]
Ed Jones from Aloha, Oregon caught a Maryland record blue catfish ─ weighing 84 pounds and measuring 52 inches long, with a girth of 36.5 inches ─ on August 13 in the Potomac River near Fort Washington. Jones and his guide, Captain Josh Fitchett of Montpelier, Va., kept the fish alive and took it into [...]
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