Big Bass Can't Resist This Lure: The Stickbait is Popular for Use in the Cold Waters of Springtime.
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By Brent Frazee, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Mar. 13--The cigar-shaped lure darted through the water in an erratic manner, then paused.   It stayed almost motionless for about 10 seconds . . . until it disappeared into the mouth of a big bass.
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The northern snakehead, an Asian fish that's nearly a yard long, gobbles most anything and can survive awhile out of water, has again been reported in Lake Wylie. A fisherman reported catching a 31-inch, 13-pound snakehead near Belmont on May 13, the N.C.
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By BOB RIEPENHOFF  The recent blast of bitter cold weather is a welcome development for those looking forward to the Lake Winnebago system sturgeon spearing season, which opens Saturday.
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Pro bass fishing, once dominated by men, is now hooking women competitors.
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By DAMON TATEM  Pier fishing was good along the northern beaches Thursday.  Lots of 11/2- to 2-pound bluefish were landed throughout most of the day on Avalon Pier. Action was spread out along the pier from the cleaning sink to the end of the pier.
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Get them while they're big. The local bass, that is.
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By FROM STAFF REPORTS  Cold and snow, cold and snow! It's a perfect time to head to your local lake and participate in one of the many ice fishing derbies on tap over the next couple of weeks.  Here are a few offerings:  .
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By Eric Sharp, Detroit Free Press  Sep. 10--BALDWIN -- This isn't something you hear of too often: an angler complaining that the fish are too big.
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By Al Jones, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 10--OCEAN SPRINGS -- The Mississippi Sound is home to some of the best fishing the Gulf of Mexico has to offer. From cobia to redfish, anglers have a smorgasbord to choose from.   Add blackfish, also known as tripletail, to the mix.
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It's not a long season, there are plenty of restrictions and fishermen can't keep their catch.  But starting this morning, anglers will once more be angling for sea-run Atlantic salmon in Maine.
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By Bob Lamb | Tribune Outdoors Editor, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 22--If there is one fish species that has been the biggest surprise this winter, it may be perch.
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By Craig Medred, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 18--Big Wild Life (if you can afford it)   That ought to be the subtext for the new marketing campaign for Anchorage.   Bear-viewing at Wolverine Creek. Flightseeing. King salmon fishing at what appears to be Clear Creek.
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By John Weiss, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  May 31--GARRISON, Minn. -- Big Pine Lake looked unfriendly, unknown, unforgiving last weekend as I left the dock to fish for bass.   Strange.
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Pike are being caught at Port Talbot Docks with a Midlands visitor bagging a 28lb fish using a herring as bait and local Andy Smith using the same bait to catch one of 22.75lb.
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By JIM FREDA  The big striped bass run is on in Monmouth and Ocean counties. Excellent reports of striped bass being caught in the 30-40-pound range have been coming in all week.
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The look for spring will be the more,   the merrier.
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By Ray Grass Deseret Morning News  STRAWBERRY RESERVOIR -- Consensus is: As the water turns, so does fall fishing.