Fishing

Early-season deer hunters can find great success in Florida, Kentucky, South Carolina and Montana.

Senate procedures being used to prevent votes on amendments to a bipartisan measure expanding hunters' access to public lands and land conservation programs.

A few miles east of the crowed beaches along northwest Florida’s panhandle sits St. Joe Bay, where people are fewer and trout are abundant.

MicroCritters feature kid-friendly shapes and barbless hooks for safety.

Cajun Bowfishing’s Sucker Punch tips the scales at 3.2 pounds, boasts a 7.25-inch brace height, and measures 32.25-inches axle to axle.

Gerald Swindle had no thoughts of coming close to a win heading into the final day at the Bassmaster Elite Series event at Lake Dardanelle – until the bewitching hour!

A decade and a half ago, the place where West Virginia's Elk River rises full-blown from the ground was known only to locals and to die-hard trout fishermen.

Plan an enjoyable, successful black bear hunt in Alaska's legendary Southeast or, perhaps, somewhere closer to home.

The 13A’s size makes it ideal for a host of trout fishing situations. It’s small enough to look manageable even to a 10- or 12-inch stocked trout, but big enough to draw the interest of large fish.

Youth event challenges participants in sporting clays, .22, muzzleloader and archery shooting, wildlife identification, orienteering and hunter safety.

South Carolina has released more about 280,000 striped bass into Lake Hartwell and officials say they should be worth catching in a couple of years.

Zell Rowland didn’t win the B.A.S.S. Elite tournament on Arkansas’ Dardanelle, but he did bring in the biggest sack of the tournament on Day 2 – 25.5 pounds!

Sometimes, thinking outside the box is an even better way to put more, bigger walleyes in the box.

Fishermen take to the illegal act of blast fishing to "reel in" many schools of fish.

A group of young men fishing off an Offatts Bayou pier rescued a mother and her infant after she drove into the water.

Concerns about insurance requirements will keep a southwest Missouri high school team from participating in the first high school bass pro fishing tournament in June.

Business owners on Mille Lacs Lake have mixed feelings about new state rules prohibiting late-night walleye fishing expeditions.

Damage from invasive species extends beyond the environment. A Cornell University study concluded that they caused more than $120 billion in economic harm annually.

Michigan's new license season began April 1. Anglers need to be sure they have purchased a new fishing license for this season.

Leo Hindery, co-Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners, LP based in New York, has helped bankroll the Democratic National Committee and several top Democratic Senate candidates — including top gun-control advocates Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chuck Shumer and Ed Markey.

Eric Lester of Campbell Hall reeled in a 60-pound female striper measuring 53.4 inches long from the Hudson River.

Northern pike have done quite well in Lake Oahe. So well, in fact, that anglers are regularly catching fish up to and over 20 pounds.

Missouri hunting and fishing seasons are opening for squirrels and bass.

Oklahoma’s Jason Christie won the Bassmaster Elite Tournament on Arkansas’ Lake Dardanelle.

Mille Lacs' battered reputation as the state's premiere walleye lake overshadows how it has become a premiere smallmouth bass fishery.

Scattered about the million-acre reservation, two dozen of about 35 fishable lakes are open to non-tribal anglers. A few of them range from good to outstanding. All of them are crowd-free.

Officials say the men took the fish out of a hidden holding tank where they had been stored before the competition began.

It's the one day in the summer when anglers can fish without a license in Vermont.

The workshop takes place June 6-8 and is an opportunity for anyone 18 or older to learn outdoor skills associated with hunting and fishing.