BAUDETTE (AP) -- By any standard, the 42 1/2-inch northern pike was a trophy. And it had quite a story to tell. Five years ago, the fish had shown itself in this same place, a shallow, weedy bay off a ...

The fly fishing world is never short on opinions about etiquette and ethics. Debates rage on the internet and riverbank about the proper way to catch and release, the necessity of pinching barbs, and ...

A new study provides the first detailed documentation of a shallow-water fish diving 450 feet deep to spawn. Uncovering this very rare spawning behavior in bonefish (Albula vulpes) is unprecedented.

"Unpredictable" is the word that best describes the springtime white bass and walleye spawning run up the Beaver Lake tributaries.

The annual spring fish netting is underway at Lake Rathbun, Spirit Lake and Guttenberg and will begin Tuesday night at Storm Lake as the spawning season picks up steam. Staff from the Iowa Department ...

In Alabama, the pollen is thick on the truck, the buttercups are popping out of the ground, and the dogwoods are about to bloom—all indicators that bass should be heading onto beds soon. The same can ...

Trout Run is off limits to Lake Erie steelhead anglers year round. On Monday morning, though, volunteers were allowed to net as many large steelhead as they could from the small nursery water in Erie ...

In spawning, female fish lay eggs while the male fish fertilizes them with milt, or sperm. At the hatchery, staff members net the fish that are ready to spawn and place them into a tub of anesthetic, ...