Dac Collins

1 week ago | outdoorlife.com | Dac Collins

Florida guide Laurel David and Capt. Richard Fairbanks are second-generation fishermen who’ve spent their whole lives in the Ft. Lauderdale area. But neither of them were ready for the rare and otherworldly-looking fish they caught on a charter trip on Father’s Day. The 148-pound opah, also known as a moonfish, was the first one they’d ever held in person. And as far as they know, it’s one of the only fish of its kind ever caught off the Florida coast.

1 week ago | outdoorlife.com | Dac Collins

A popular campground in Colorado’s White River National Forest has taken the proactive and unusual step of banning tents and all other soft-sided shelters to keep campers safe from bears. The U.S. Forest Service enacted the tent ban at Difficult Campground on Wednesday, after a black bear scratched at a tent there with two young children inside it.

1 week ago | outdoorlife.com | Dac Collins

Maryland outdoorsman Matt Foreman made a serious haul while on a chartered bowfishing trip earlier this month. Fishing the Susquehanna River the night of June 7, Foreman harvested 26 snakeheads and a bonus blue cat with his guide, Capt. Nick Mather. One of those snakeheads weighed 21.8 pounds, and in addition to breaking the Maryland record for the species, Foreman’s fish is a new bowfishing world record.

1 week ago | sports.yahoo.com | Dac Collins

Maryland outdoorsman Matt Foreman made a serious haul while on a chartered bowfishing trip earlier this month. Fishing the Susquehanna River the night of June 7, Foreman harvested 26 snakeheads and a bonus blue cat with his guide, Capt. Nick Mather. One of those snakeheads weighed 21.8 pounds, and in addition to breaking the Maryland record for the species, Foreman’s fish is a new bowfishing world record.

1 week ago | outdoorlife.com | Dac Collins

A former director of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has been indicted by a federal grand jury for his alleged role in a corrupt kickback scheme that involved a former wildlife commissioner and a contractor who ran the agency’s online hunter ed courses.