Davis Lake will be restocked with 11 tons of Eagle Lake Rainbow Trout today, figuring 4 to the pound, that’s nearly 100,000 fish. Opening ceremonies to include a number of fishing seminars and a visit from Smokey Bear, it’s likely to be a fruitful fishing trip after so many years of Northern Pike dominance.

Most states face a budget hole for their fish and game departments due to the decline in anglers. A state holiday for fishermen would solve the decline in revenue, as proof of license ownership would qualify the bearer for a day off. Budget issue solved.

The steelhead opener on the lower Columbia River has been postponed indefinitely to avoid accidentally catching Chinook Salmon. This year the Chinook count held promise for the 3rd best return on record - then the bottom fell out.
Forecasts of returning salmon have dropped from the original estimate of 269,000 fish to 180,000 - and […]

Alert to trends in fly fishing, fish, and tackle - we’re just going to have to point the bat at the left field fence, so’s you can flock to the cutting edge…
It’s the next great “Urban Safari” - pools teeming with voracious, predatory fish and only you know about them. It’s light tackle and gossamer […]

Recent photographs from Borneo depict evidence of Orangutan fishing with a spear. A rare photo proving that tool usage in primates is more common than once thought.

If video games are the first introduction to the Great Outdoors, how can the reality keep pace with the expectation? Games for Nintendo, Wii, and the xBox bustle with nonstop, fast paced, fishing - and the reality is droll by comparison. Is this the new “Mark Trail” - and will Wii replace the father-to-son tradition of the outdoorsman?

The Sierra Club has launched a web portal aligning themselves with traditional outdoorsmen, hunters and fishermen. The environmental lobby needs all the votes it can get - and so do we.

The federal government is asking small boat owners to be watchful for Al Qaeda terrorists employing small watercraft to create mayhem. Nuclear and Biological weapons are likely to be deployed against the US in small ships or fishing boats.

The California department of fish and game will be trucking this year’s salmon smolts around the Delta pumps to pens in San Pablo Bay. There they’ll be acclimated to saltwater, then released. Tiny tags will be added to their nose to trace their origins and learn where they were ultimately caught.

PETA offers 1 million dollars for someone to invent the next great fake meat. Assuming they’ll make it from something without feelings like parsnips or asparagus, whose stem cells will they harvest the lard genes from? It’s not meat unless the medical community is warning you off it - or is it?