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Boaters: Go Slow Around The Oil Spill Cleanup

The oil spill cleanup continues and will continue for some time. While it continues, anglers and boaters are warned to travel slowly around the cleanup. Florida recently issued a release indicating such.

Because of the large number of oil-containment booms and cleanup equipment being deployed around the state in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Read More

Wisconsin Fishing Report: Pike, Musky Provide Good Action

The Wisconsin DNR reports that the warm, humid weather over the Fourth of July holiday weekend had large numbers of people out enjoying lakes and rivers, and kept most state campgrounds filled.  Most of the state continued to receive some rainfall in the last week, ranging from less than half an inch in the southeast, to Read More

New Hampshire Fishing Report: Heat Wave Keeps Fishing Action Hot

In Northern New Hampshire, the Division of Fish & Game said that it can be difficult to predict what effect the warm weather will have on gamefish in northern New Hampshire. The current heat wave has been hanging around long enough that there are clear impacts on the water bodies.

Common sense would tell you that Read More

Spring chinook fishing extended on Oregon’s Wallowa & Imnaha Rivers

The Imnaha and Wallowa rivers in Northeast Oregon will remain open to hatchery spring chinook fishing until further notice, fishery managers announced today.

“So far this year, unseasonably high water has really limited fishing opportunities,” said Jeff Yanke, ODFW district fish biologist in Enterprise.  “This means we’re able to extend the season so anglers and local Read More

Arizona’s Urban Lakes Receive Partial Stocking, Half Unstocked

The Arizona Division of Fish & Game advised anglers that because of unanticipated problems with the July 1 channel catfish stockings, only 10 out of the 20 Urban Fishing Program lakes received fish. Consequently, fishing conditions at some lakes for the July 4 holiday weekend will only be fair to poor. Below is a listing Read More

New Hampshire Fishing Report: Freshwater & Saltwater Fishing Stays Hot

New Hampshire’s Department of Fish & Game recently reported good fishing all over the state, from the North through to the south and throughout the coast. Trout action remains consistent despite rising temperatures, and the bass and crappie action is picking up in some places. On the coast, the cod fishing action remains solid but Read More

California Completes Massive Salmon Releases

California’s Department of Fish and Game (DFG) completed the release of 16.5 million young Sacramento Fall-Run Chinook salmon in northern California on June 15. The majority of the young salmon, called smolts, were placed into acclimation pens in San Pablo Bay prior to release, while others were released in rivers that flow to the bay.
Smolts that Read More

CA DFG Releases Mobile App

You’ve got to love it when a Department of Fish and Game gets on the forefront and releases a cool mobile application. Who isn’t going to benefit from mobile communications more than anglers?

Looking to learn where to go, what to catch and how to catch it? Besides cool sites like The Local Fisherman, how are Read More

South Carolina Fishing Report: Good Bass Fishing

In Lake Jocassee, the DNR is reporting as of June 21 that the largemouth bass action is good. Post-spawn fish are hanging around blowdowns, especially in the vicinity of spawning areas, before they move out to deep water.  They recommend that you fish soft plastics slowly, and expect best results on overcast or rainy days.

The Read More

Arizona Spring Catfish Stocking Season Ends July 3

The Arizona Game and Fish Department recently announced that the spring catfish stocking season that includes eight deliveries of fish every other week will end the week of June 28-July 3. Every stocking, 14,000 pounds of 14-20 inch channel catfish, are delivered from Arkansas to Arizona’s 20 “Urban Fishing Program” waters in the Phoenix and Read More