Extras

Word spread through the tournament ranks that night, and it continued to spread. Within a couple of weeks, almost everyone Matt Hougan talked to was pulling the new jerkbait.

Crankbaits prompt reaction strikes from fish that might study and eventually reject something smaller and slower moving. They also increase your odds of finding large trout that live in a stream, but do so without culling numbers.

Why the marshes have been hit with a plague of undersized trout is anyone's guess. Anglers have theorized it's the result of a really strong spawn during the summer of 2013, but it's too soon to tell whether that's the case.

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.