NOAA closed fishing in federal waters Sunday, but state waters in Alabama and Mississippi remain open and folks were taking advantage of clearing skies Monday afternoon to wet a line. There were a bunch of fishermen on the Gulf State Park Pier on Monday, and pier supervisor Bill Key said the rails were crowded by [...]

A man fishing with three people on a catwalk under the Interstate 635 bridge over the Missouri River fell to his death late last night. Kansas City, Kan., firefighters responded to a 911 call about 11:40 p.m. Monday reporting that the man had fallen between 35 to 50 feet from the bridge onto railroad tracks [...]

COLUMBUS, OH – The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife invites anglers to visit www.ohiodnr.com/creel to take a new online angler survey. The online survey asks anglers to provide feedback on a variety of topics including: black bass regulations, usefulness of the division’s inland fishing forecast, limited access fishing at La Su [...]

Soldiers preparing to serve in Afghanistan are being given fishing lessons to combat stress as they wait for the order to deploy. The famously relaxing hobby, which sometimes sees anglers doze off as equally soporific fish refuse to bite, has been introduced at Britain’s biggest barracks in Catterick, North Yorkshire. Troops from the Mercian regiment’s [...]

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A fisherman in Guyana says he was attacked by a jaguar on a remote river in the Rupununi savanna near the border with Brazil. Clarence Bernard says he fought off the female cat by stabbing it several times as he yelled for help. Dr. Irv Chan said Thursday that Bernard’s injuries [...]

More oil is leaking from the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, and officials now say the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is five times bigger than first thought. According to a report in The New York Times, a scientist from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) estimates that 5,000 [...]

There’s no cost to wet a line this weekend in Ohio as the state’s popular Free Fishing Days return. The state has sponsored a weekend of free fishing each year since 1993 to promote outdoor family activities, as well as its lakes and rivers. Marietta resident Scott Burns, 36, said he has fond memories of [...]

Fishing for spring walleyes can be like gambling — one day, the action is red-hot, and the next, your hand is cold. That’s when wise spring anglers rely on a jig and live bait minnow combo to guarantee success. It’s like stacking the deck, almost guaranteeing fishing success and coming up aces when you ply [...]

Fishing season in New York gets into full swing on Saturday, the opening day for walleye, northern pike, pickerel and tiger muskellunge. Trout season began April 1 and the catch-and-release bass season is now underway on most state water bodies. Of the warm-water species, walleye are the traditional primary target this time of year; walleye [...]

Two fishermen have been rescued from their partly sunken boat in the ocean off Broome after going missing yesterday afternoon. The men, a 33-year-old from Mindarie and a 21-year-old from Leeman, were holidaying in Broome when they failed to return from a fishing trip yesterday afternoon. Water Police spokesman Sgt Michael Wear said men were [...]