Fishing Tips, Tools and Gear

Fishing Tips, Tools And Gear

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Labor Day Weekend

Labor Day Weekend

Well, I guess we have come to the official unofficial end of summer, Labor Day weekend.  I typically do not have a holiday-related blog post for Labor Day, but this might apply to your “labor”: That pie chart may be closer to the truth than many of us want to admit.  The problem is, the …

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Sheep

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I have been a fisherman all my life.  Have worked as a professional fisheries biologist for 30-some years now.  I have spent a lot of time on the water, and an awful lot of time observing anglers.  I have come to a conclusion:  By far, most anglers are sheep! What do I mean by that? …

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The Salmon Sisters Turned the Rudder on the Commercial Fishing Industry


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One dynamic duo unquestionably exhibits the heart and soul of fishing. Right about now, you can probably find sisters Emma Teal Laukitis and Claire Neaton somewhere off the coast of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. It’s pretty much always been that way, too. Their current daily routine isn’t much different than it was when they were kids,

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Is there writing on the stone wall for stripers?

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Is there writing on the stone wall for stripers?

After fishing on the rocks for two keeper stripers a night, we would lean on one tailgate, take two cold cans of beer from any icy remains in a soft cooler then walk to one long, sagging, stubborn stone wall. Through a sweet harmony of crickets and cicadas, we faced a farmers field of tall grasses and stray sunflowers, thick and healthy. We leaned on stones wet, slick from an evening’s dew, taking in long breaths of damp earth, breathing out pure salt air. With wrinkled palms, innocently we wiped our hands along green moss, unconsciously drawing patterns on slow growing velvet beards on glacial field stones.

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The Oldest Lighthouse in the U.S. is 303 Years Old and Counting!


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The original Boston Light dates back to 1716! Nothing says nautical quite like a lighthouse. And Boston Light on Massachusetts’ Little Brewster Island is an especially notable one. This historic light guards the entrance to Boston Harbor and is 303 years old and counting. Not only is it the first lighthouse built in the United

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Michigan Man Busted With More Than 1,400 Illegal Panfish

Michigan Department of Natural Resources
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The daily limit for panfish on Gladwin County’s Lake Lancer is 25 fish. A fisherman exceeded his daily limit by a long shot last week, when wildlife officials busted him with more than 1,400 panfish. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources received several calls from fellow fishermen reporting a 67-year-old man who was clearly exceeding

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Cutthroats! Finally!

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I have been promising that we have been raising some more cutthroat trout and will be stocking them again in Nebraska waters.  I just got word that the first of those stockings has happened!  A thousand 10-inch cutties were stocked in the White River in far northwest Nebraska today! Those of you still needing a …

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