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1 week ago | 
wired2fish.com | Bob McNally
The strange-looking eel-like northern snakehead fish is a prolific invasive fish species that’s not classed as a gamefish anywhere in the U.S. It’s native to Asia and is considered a prime food fish in those regions. But after well-establishing itself in the U.S., fisheries managers nearly everywhere have worked to remove the species in America by almost any means possible.
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1 week ago | 
wired2fish.com | Bob McNally
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) reports that in May 2023 an angler fishing off Sheboygan caught a large 16-pound lake trout having a coded wire tag. The tag showed the fish had been stocked in southern Lake Michigan on the Sheboygan Reef in July 1985. Nearly two generations later, the fish was caught in Lake Michigan not far from where it was stocked.
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1 week ago | 
wired2fish.com | Bob McNally
Chad Vance is an old hand at limb-line fishing for catfish, having grown up using the technique with family members. The 39-year-old Cheatham County Sheriff’s Department officer was checking a limb line in a small canoe mid-day on June 12 on Cheatham Lake, not far from Ashland City, Tenn. He would break the lake record for flathead catfish — after a bit of a wrestling match.
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2 weeks ago | 
outdoorlife.com | Bob McNally
Idaho’s lower Snake River in Canyon County is slow-moving and clear, and it has good numbers of large carp, says bowfisherman Riley Farden, who lives nearby in New Plymouth. He and his wife were on the river in his jet-drive jonboat around midday Sunday, and good numbers of carp were milling around. Farden says he’d already shot 10 to 15 carp that day when he spotted a huge fish holding near the bottom in about four feet of water. He drew his 50-pound compound bow and made a good shot on the carp.
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2 weeks ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Bob McNally
Idaho’s lower Snake River in Canyon County is slow-moving and clear, and it has good numbers of large carp, says bowfisherman Riley Farden, who lives nearby in New Plymouth. He and his wife were on the river in his jet-drive jonboat around midday Sunday, and good numbers of carp were milling around. Farden says he’d already shot 10 to 15 carp that day when he spotted a huge fish holding near the bottom in about four feet of water. He drew his 50-pound compound bow and made a good shot on the carp.
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2 weeks ago | 
wired2fish.com | Bob McNally
If you’ve never fished for bass or enjoyed watching the abundant wildlife on north-central Florida’s famed Rodman Reservoir, you should. And if some day you want to, I’d suggest trying to save this remarkable piece of wetland habitat from folks who want to see it drained. Powerful forces are once again trying to drain the lake, dredging up arguments that have been on-going for more than 50 years.
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2 weeks ago | 
wired2fish.com | Bob McNally
West Central Colorado’s 9,100-acre Blue Mesa Reservoir on the Gunnison River is a popular fishing spot for kokanee salmon. Kokanees are heavily stocked annually by the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Department (CPWD). But lake trout in Blue Mesa were taking a serious toll by preying on small salmon before they reached catchable size. So, in 2020 the state decided to start the Blue Mesa Lake Trout Tournament, which runs from January 1 to April 30.
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3 weeks ago | 
wired2fish.com | Bob McNally
Northeast Kansas’ Lake Shawnee may be small at 416-acres, but the little reservoir partly in the city limits of Topeka has some remarkable bass treasures, like a fish that was nearly a Kansas state record smallmouth bass!“We were doing our annual spring fish survey May 9 on the lake with our electro-shocking boat,” Fisheries Supervisor Luke Kowalewski tells Wired2fish. “I was netting the electro-stunned fish that came up to the surface at the boat.
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3 weeks ago | 
wired2fish.com | Bob McNally
Finally, there’s solid proof that Gulf red snapper populations are in superb shape, with 7 million fish found along just the 50-mile-wide Alabama coastline. This is precisely what many Southern marine anglers, guides, and charter captains have been yelling to anyone who would listen for over a decade. Research scientists at the University of South Alabama’s Marine Sciences school recently have proven that red snapper populations are the healthiest they’ve been in at least 14 years.
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3 weeks ago | 
wired2fish.com | Bob McNally
The 6-man crew of the 38-foot Freeman catamaran boat Chicken Ship left the Shellman’s Bluff, Georgia, inlet at 4 a.m. on May 5. It was a long 100 mile run over calm water before the anglers set out trolling lines near the Gulf Stream about 7 a.m.“I was slated to be the first person on a rod that got a strike,” said 17-year-old Cade Quick. “We hadn’t fished long and – ‘Wham’ – we got a hit on the left long outrigger. A fish took a blue-and-white chugger lure with a ballyhoo bait.
