Monkfish are pretty gnarly looking sea dwellers, and a monster specimen of the monster fish was just landed in Iceland. Fishing off the coast of Sauðanes, Iceland, at a depth of 180 feet, anglers caught a 50-inch long, 34-inch wide, 57-pound monkfish. The monster monkfish was taken to the market, where the average fish is less than 8 [...]
Russian Anglers Land 1,360-Pound Predatory Sturgeon
Unless you know Russian, there’s not much information on this catch. But according to USA Today, This 1,360-pound Kaluga was caught Tuesday, May 15 in Heilongjiang River, at Tongjiang, a city that borders Russia in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. Kaluga, or river beluga, is a popular fish for its caviar. They are basically sturgeon with scary [...]
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Monster Striped Bass Denied State Record Could be World Record, $1,000,000 Fish!
Last year, everyone was talking about Greg Myerson’s striped bass. This year, that name might be Rodney Ply. Ply was fishing on Bull Shoals on February 18 when he landed a 68-plus-pound striped bass. Ply is proactive, and decided to sign up for the Mustad Hooks “Hook-a-Million” contest, which awards anyone who lands pre-registered angler [...]
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Colorado Teen Stripped of Striper Record
Last month, Isaac Sprecher made the news, and the GoFISHn blog, with a 31-pound, 8.4-ounce striped bass that set the Colorado state record. But, there’s a bit of a problem with where he caught the fish, and it’s landed him in some trouble. Sprecher claimed that he caught the fish from McIntosh Lake, where harvesting [...]
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Record Snakehead Landed in Virginia
They are invasive. They can live for days out of the water. Maryland wants anglers to kill them all. And the native Japanese fish may have a new record courtesy of Virginia angler Juan Duran. Duran was fishing the Potomac River outside of Washington, D.C. when he landed an 18.73-pound snakehead that may set the [...]
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Salmon-Eating Sea Lion Battle Goes to Court
One of the most polarizing issues in the Pacific Northwest right now may be the killing of sea lions in the name of salmon conservation. Fisheries management says they need to get rid of 92 sea lions, the first options are relocations, but most are being killed, and animal right activists are taking the issue [...]
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Wine is Killing California Steelhead
Biologists at UC Berkeley proved that during the dry summer season, California vineyards draw so much water from rivers to nourish and protect their grapes, that river levels drop drastically and cause the mortality rate of juvenile steelhead to skyrocket to over 70%. During years with unusually higher than normal rainfall, vineyards pulled far less water [...]
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Warm Ocean Temps Killing Thousands of Birds in Chile?
There are more than 2,300 dead birds on the shores of Chile, and officials aren’t entirely sure why. This follows the death of nearly 5,000 marine birds in Peru just a week before, not to mention a mysterious, higher-than-normal mortality of marine mammals in Peru this year so far. And while investigations are still going [...]
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Friend Murdered Over Pet Goldfish
In Le Mans, France, a man simply referred to as Mario P asked neighbor Philip Emery to watch his pet goldfish while he was out of town in February. When Mario came home, he found his fish tank on his doorstep, devoid of water and fish. So, Mario killed him. Philip Emery was recently found dead [...]
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Illinois Anglers Get Skunked on the River, Attacked by Flying, Asian Carp
It wasn’t a good day of fishing on the Illinois River for these three anglers. They were coming back in after a day on the river with no fish to show for it, but they certainly found it on the way home. They had the camera rolling when they went through a school of Asian [...]
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Bluefin Tuna Season Opens in Europe Under Watchful Eye
The bluefin tuna battle has been raging throughout the world as the demand cannot keep up with the supply. But the European fishing industry has set out to sea starting today in hopes of catching their quota of bluefin in the Mediterranean, and the European Union is on hand to make sure they stick to that [...]
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North Carolina Votes to Stop the Slaughter of Menhaden……….
Thank you North Carolina for stopping the slaughter of menhaden off your coast by the Omega Protein Corporation. Virginia now stand alone in killing the menhaden when they try and swim the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. This is an historical moment. http://www.sportfishingmag.com/blogs/top-shots/north-carolina-votes-save-menhaden
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Louisiana Boater Crashed into Patrol Boat, Arrested
According to witnesses, on May 6 at about 7:40 p.m. Gary Miller, 43, was travelling downstream at a high rate of speed on the Amite River near French Settlement when he collided with an LDWF patrol vessel. He required medical treatment and was released later that same night. The LDWF agent, Sgt. Randy Lanoux, suffered no [...]
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Catch and Kill Carp Tournament Set for Minnesota Town
There are too many invasive carp in the Chisago Lakes located just north of Minneapolis in Lindstrome, Minn., so the local Lions Club is hoping to catch and kill as many as possible. This Saturday, the Chisago Lakes Lions Carp Fishing Tournament and Festival will take place with anglers trying to kill the most carp [...]
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