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February 22, 2012
An inflatable fishing boat has survived an attack by a great white shark off Strandfontein.
The boat was anchored two miles out to sea when the shark attacked.
Its crew was fishing for smooth hound sharks, which are preyed upon by great whites.
One of the passengers had just pulled a...
February 22, 2012
A day after the Upriver Lakes sturgeon spearing season was halted just two days in, spearers registered a mere 22 fish from Lake Winnebago on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012.
The number pushed the three-day season total to 330.
Ron Bruch, Upper Fox-Wolf Fisheries Work Unit Supervisor for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, acknowledged that spearing tends to regress following...
February 22, 2012
Fisheries staff from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources are reporting a new state record tiger trout that was landed by Trent Perry of Santaquin on Feb. 16 at Scofield Reservoir. The fish checked in at 32 1/4 inches with a girth of 20 inches and an official weight of 15 pounds and .16 ounces. The previous record tiger trout (a hybrid between a brown and brook trout) was caught in 2007 by...
February 21, 2012
THENS—So far five fish have been entered into the Toyota ShareLunker program for the 2011-2012 season, and Lake Austin has produced three of them.
Wesley Hayden of Round Rock caught Toyota ShareLunker 527 from Lake Austin February 11. Landon Glass of Jarrell caught No. 528 from the lake February 14.
Brett Ketchum caught No. 526 from Lake Austin January 29, starting the three-fish...
February 20, 2012
Mike Meagher had been playing the fish for 15 minutes, and still he didn’t know what he had on the other end of his line. He knew only that it must be big.
Meagher, 23, and his friend Dallas Marnich, 24, both of Proctor, were fishing for walleyes on the lower St. Louis River last Wednesday when Meagher hooked something decidedly un-walleye-like.
After a 45-minute fight — and a...
February 17, 2012
An man from New Zealand landed a two metre shark with his bare hands as he fought the creature cruising the popular swimming spot.
After a weekend that saw families enjoying flat surf and warm weather, Kelly Sale set a net about a mile south of the Marine Pde surf club on Monday night.
The next day the shark, likely a bronze whaler, swam into the chest-deep net at about 4am while...
February 17, 2012
It was a good day at Lake Cascade for Bob Shindelar of Meridian, Idaho, who landed a 2.6-pound, 16-inch perch while fishing on Saturday (Feb.11).
Idaho Fish and Game is recognizing it as a tie with current state record of 2-pound, 9.6-ounce ( which converts to 2.6 pounds) and 15.5-inches set in 1976. That fish was caught in Wilson Lake by Jerry Hamblin of Burley.
In order to...
February 17, 2012
A local fisherman has set a new record for catching catfish in Lake Moultrie.
Leland Selph of Cross, SC is a new hero to some, setting a catfish catching record, for the largest blue catfish caught in Lake Moultrie. This scale tipping fish weighs in at 136 pounds, 6 ounces and is 56 inches in length.
The fish would have surpassed the current 21-year-old state record of 109 pounds...
February 16, 2012
Her daughter Melissa wasn't so sure she could cope with a weekend in a rustic weekend ranch in Wyoming.
And things certainly seemed to go wrong for Joan Rivers on tonight's episode of reality show Joan and Melissa: Joan Knows Best, when she attempted to cope without her creature comforts, as well as try a few outdoor pursuits.
Her attempt at fly fishing turned disastrous when...
February 16, 2012
Sea dogs might find it fishy but this beast was a case of beginners’ luck. Angler Chris Proctor has broken the record for the biggest cod caught in the English Channel – on his first sea fishing trip.
The 31-year-old’s 19.75kg (43lb 9oz) catch was so large he thought his hook was caught on a shipwreck, until his reel began spinning.
An epic 30 minute battle ensued until the...
February 14, 2012
When 15-year-old Ethan Lynch of Amesbury reeled up a massive blue shark last August near Jeffrey's Ledge, about 20 miles off Rockport, little did he know that it would someday earn him a chance to be lauded by the state for his angling efforts.
But that's what happened this weekend when the state's Department of Fish and Game (DFG) recognized Lynch for...
February 13, 2012
Two young New Plymouth men are the toast of Taranaki's big-game fishing fraternity after landing a striped marlin that was almost bigger than their boat.
Even better, Hayden Stokell and his mate Nathan Richardson caught the big stripie after they'd spent the morning pig hunting and had bagged two pigs.
The sensational day's hunting and fishing began at 4.30am on Saturday when the...
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February 13, 2012
The Cayman Islands angling scene recently saw a record fish on the scales.
Jason Begg-Smith caught a 392 pound swordfish in Grand Cayman waters last Thursday, the largest catch of the species in the history of local fishing. Begg-Smith, 31, would best the previous mark by nearly double aboard a 16-foot Lund boat named Catch My Drift, captained by Kevin Wall.
The Camana Bay...
February 13, 2012
A three-quarter white moon set as a red, round sun rose into clear skies Saturday over Lake Winnebago.
The celestial symmetry was appreciated, not least for the brightness it added to the stage.
"Haven't been able to see the lake since Thursday," said Bill McAloon of Oshkosh, looking out over the white expanse of Winnebago from the west shore. "Now we can play some catch-up."...
February 10, 2012
So far the weather has been very mild this winter in Florida, that being said customers are getting out on the water a lot more. We have a large number of customers who wade fish, and now that the water temperatures are in the high sixties to low seventies this is a great time to wade the flats for some nice size trout and red fish. There are a few things to take in consideration when wading...
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