Dave Parris

Nov 14, 2024 | themeateater.com | Patrick Durkin |Dave Parris |Pete Robbins |Spencer Neuharth

A small fleet of fishing boats ranging from one-person kayaks to low-slung, rocket-propelled bass boats squeezed me from my preferred hole on a recent Sunday while fishing Idaho’s Lake Cascade. Rather than stress and feel aggrieved, I pulled anchor and rowed my cedar-strip rowboat 200 yards northward before dropping anchor again. The nearest anglers were a father and daughter fishing from huge sandstone rocks on the shoreline 75 yards away.

Jun 21, 2023 | themeateater.com | Jordan Sillars |Dave Parris |Stephen L. Klobucar

The angler who landed a 619.4-pound blue marlin at a North Carolina fishing tournament is speaking out about what he says was an incorrect decision by tournament officials. They ruled that even though the fish beat the next largest marlin by 135 pounds, the wounds on its body and tail disqualified it from the $3.5 million first-place prize. “I don’t feel like the wounds on that fish would have affected it whatsoever,” Bailey Gore, 27, told MeatEater. “It’s like if a human had scraped his knee.