The surest way to keep rampaging Asian carp from gaining a foothold in the Great Lakes is to sever the link between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River basin, created by engineers in Chicago more than a century ago. That would thrill environmentalists and those who make their living in the $7 billion Great Lakes fishing [...]

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Parents who don’t have fishing licenses can ice fish without one this weekend, if they take a kid fishing. Minnesotans age 16 or older can try ice fishing without buying angling licenses if they take a child younger than 16 fishing during the Take-A-Kid Ice Fishing Weekend, which runs Saturday through Monday. [...]

MADISON COUNTY, Virginia (CNN) — Amidst the tranquility of a fishing trip at the Rose River Farm in Madison County, a wounded warrior says he almost feels “semi-normal again.” Retired Navy Capt. Ed Nicholson’s Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing helps rehabilitate wounded servicemembers. Retired Navy Capt. Ed Nicholson’s Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing helps rehabilitate [...]

San Diego is known worldwide for its heavyweight largemouth bass, but it was a giant blue catfish that set a record Thursday at San Vicente. Steve Oudomsouk, 58, of San Diego landed a 113.4-pound blue catfish while fishing off Quaide Point at the reservoir. The catch shattered the state record for blue catfish, a 101-pounder [...]

Hallowell, Maine — A man who was drowning in a Maine river is recovering after getting reeled in with a fishing rod. Bob Greene of Hallowell said he heard what he thought was a bird early Thursday as he was having his morning coffee. He then realized there was a man bobbing in the Kennebec [...]

The San Juan River — at least for the 2 miles through the town of Pagosa Springs — is getting a facelift this summer. In hopes of drawing anglers from across the state, the town is purchasing $50,000 worth of trophy trout that will be stocked between now and the end of summer. The unprecedented [...]

Darin Opel is allergic to fish. If he eats one or something that has been fried in the same grease, the reaction swells his throat shut. “That’s why my buddies like to go fishing with me,” said Opel, a 40-year-old operations manager from Worden. “I can catch them and handle them, but I can’t eat [...]

NEWPORT NEWS — For three days next month it won’t cost a dime to reel in a big one. Anglers will not need a saltwater or freshwater fishing license to fish in Virginia June 6 through June 8, except in designated stocked trout waters. A Virginia saltwater fishing license costs $12.50 a year for state [...]

The Upper Rogue’s winter steelhead run has been late arriving this year, which is good news for anglers waiting for the first spring Chinook to show up in May. The steelhead run should be peaking just as the first fishable numbers of springers show up. “Mid- to late April and all of May should be [...]

After catching and releasing a 135-pound tarpon off Islamorada, Fla., on Saturday, former President George H.W. Bush and his guide received some flak from a handful of conservation-minded anglers for a photograph of the trophy catch. Fishing with Capt. George Wood on a trip set up by Bush’s fishing buddy Andy Mill, a former Olympic [...]