Fishing

New Mexico and Colorado have teamed up with Native American tribes and several federal agencies to conserve the Rio Grande cutthroat trout.

It starts with minimizing the strain on thigh and calf muscles by stepping over, not on top of, logs and rocks.

Traditional Maine smelt fishing is banned in the lower half of the state this spring from Stonington to the New Hampshire border.

Louisiana amends the 2014-2015 resident-game hunting regulations to allow hunters a three-day possession limit of small game, rabbit, squirrels and quail, but kept the daily limits of eight on squirrels and rabbits and 10 per day on quail.

Volunteers at a fly-tying marathon, held at the National Museum of the Marine Corps at Quantico, Va., tied 716 flies in eight hours, enough to provide veterans all over the country with supplies for free fly-fishing trips.

When you're almost 93 years old, you have a few wrinkles and you walk slowly. Well, let's just say it wasn't hard to tell which of the 1,600 fishermen who showed up early at the trout stream had seniority.

A Pasco fisherman who caught a state record walleye is catching some barbed remarks from catch-and-release anglers.

State officials are considering a plan aimed at stopping the illegal stocking of fish into public waters.

A report says the New Mexico Game Commission chair who recently resigned amid allegations that he was an accessory to an unlawful killing of a cougar set up the hunt.

Browse through images from the 2014 Bassmaster Classic on Alabama's Lake Guntersville.

Hunters, trappers, anglers and others can review West Virginia's proposed new hunting regulations during a series of public meetings in March.

Browse through images from the 2014 Bassmaster Classic on Alabama's Lake Guntersville.All Galleries: Bassmaster Classic-Fishing Action, Bassmaster Classic-Launches, Bassmaster Classic-Weigh-Ins

Alabama angler Randy Howell won the Bassmaster Classic, finishing with a three-day total of 67 pounds, 8 ounces on Lake Guntersville.

New Hampshire Fish and Game officials say anglers pulled in some record fish last year.

If you’ve patterned your shotgun, you know an improved cylinder choke at 30 yards only makes a pattern about three feet in diameter.

Most fish species are restricted under ceilings of ice. They get pushed into corners and pockets holding the warmest remaining water. Lake trout are just the opposite. Winter frees them to roam wherever they please.

The 2014 Bassmaster Classic is coming up quickly. They call it the "World Series of Bass Fishing" for good reason. No other tournament puts so many top anglers together to compete for big money and the life-altering experience that comes with being named a Classic Champion.

The DNR has just released its 2014 catalog of events for the program, which offers a wide range of hands-on learning opportunities for women and their families who want to learn how to hunt, fish or develop other outdoor skills.

A North Carolina husband and wife who own an outfitting company that hired guides and worked for clients in Nebraska have been convicted of violating game laws.

The time-proven truth that it works is reason enough for Jones to throw a lipless crankbait. Like most pros, though, the 2008 Bassmaster Classic champion has theories about what makes a Rattle Bait such an important part of the late-winter/early-spring arsenal.

A man leaves Mexico in December 2012 for a day of shark fishing and ends up surviving 13 months on fish, birds and turtles before washing ashore on the remote Marshall Islands thousands of miles away.

First-time buyers, looking to test drive a new fish enticement, tend to swallow what looks good. Knowing all that and having a product that does actually reel in fish as well as buyers has allowed the Reeves Lure Co. to drop a line in some lucrative waters these last 50 years.

New York state environmental officials are warning winter fishing enthusiasts to watch out for thin ice.

A Barling teenager with an affection for fishing is turning his favorite pastime into a future.

A massive sports and outdoor exhibition, now produced by the National Rifle Association, opened in Harrisburg, one year after a vendor boycott over a restriction on certain gun sales and displays prompted its predecessor to cancel.

Staying put may result in a day spent just out of the fish’s range. Go mobile and you might leave just before the fish arrive.

Bowhunters are being invited to shoot as many Asian carp as possible in a competition planned for July on the Illinois River in central Illinois.

The number of anglers fishing in North Dakota continues to hit record levels, thanks to a lot more water and fish and a good winter bite in recent years

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