Washington State Angler Gets Catch of a Lifetime
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KENNEWICK, Wash. _The end of Mike Hepper's rod went down methodically, straining the 8-pound test and bowing the rod too much for the catch at the end of the line to be a walleye.  He surely hit a snag, Hepper thought as he slowly trolled the 37-degree waters in the Columbia River.
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By Thomas Ryll, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep.
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Ronald Brooks wove a pink worm onto a fishing hook for his wife Mary. The couple had been fishing from a Jordan Lake pier since 5 a.m. and by shortly after noon the hot sun was making them think about packing up for the day.
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By The Associated Press  TOLEDO, Ohio -- Frank McDonald felt the tug on his fishing line and knew he had something big. "I was hoping it was a gigantic walleye," he said. It was much bigger.
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Some of the most popular sport fish in Lake Washington contain surprisingly dangerous levels of toxic chemicals called PCBs, state health officials said yesterday, warning anglers to limit their consumption.
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Below the deck of his shrimp boat, W.G. Smith recounts the story of his big catch more than 40 years ago.
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By Steve Lynn  By Steve Lynn  SPECIAL TO THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL  Vince Meier points at a white crane fishing in the middle of the shallow Kansas River north of Interstate 70 and MacVicar where he and his men used to work.
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By BOB RIEPENHOFF  Hazelhurst  From the back of the boat, I watched Don Streeter catch and release one and then another largemouth bass from the same dock and boat lift on Bear Lake in Oneida County.
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FLY fisherman Brian Lillie is celebrating a hap
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By Brent Frazee, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Mar. 4--COTTER, Ark. -- Donald Cranor's hopes of catching a big brown trout on the White River were rising almost as quickly as the water.
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Not too many years ago, the opening of trout season in Washington was the biggest event of the outdoor recreation year.  It was a massive show with elbow-to-elbow fishing in a carnival- like atmosphere at almost every lake in the state.
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Skeet Reese, a former nightclub dancer, was audacious long before he became 2007 Angler of the Year on the Bassmasters Tour and set himself as the standard in the sport.
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By JOHN INGHAM  ANGLERS are famed for their patience but 30 YEARS is a lifetime to wait for a double-figure bass that is bigger than your last 'double', caught in December, 1976.
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For at-risk species, sport fishing accounts for one-quarter of the catch. Regulation could rise.
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By Ray Glier  Shigeru Tsukiyama can flick his wrist and cast a lure to a spot precisely where he wants it to land, which is in the middle of four stumps sticking out of the water.  He can snip a lure from the end of his fishing line and tie on another bait in only 14 seconds.
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By Dan Simmons, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Sep. 16--Recently, I ended up on a fishing pier in Stoddard, Wis., with an older man who liked to swear. I was on a canoe trip down the Mississippi River, on vacation -- or so I thought.
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For more than 350 years, fishermen known as Bonackers have fished and farmed and served homes and businesses.