BASS BETS; Angler's Sales Pitch a Long Story
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By TED ANCHER ANGLER: Jay Guidaboni, 39, Plymouth. OCCUPATION: Sales representative for Sherwin-Williams Paint Company.
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Unlike hunting, I was not raised fishing. My family owned a set of hand-me-down rods from someone who might have fished at one point. The rods themselves are classics, but in hopeless condition. By todays standards, they are antiques. The body of the rod I prefer to use is laminated wood, and the guides are rusted and have a tendency to grab the line. At one point they may have been proud shining brass. The reel was a mess, and for the longest time the whole rig sat inside my parents shed. Fishing was something we did on weekends, in stocked ponds, for fish that never knew better. One day when helping my father clean things up, I stumbled across the old rod which no-one had used in a decade and got a crazy idea: I was going to take up fishing.
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By Bob Lamb | Tribune Outdoors Editor, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Jun. 7--Tony Christnovich believes he knows why fishing success has been good, bad and ugly the past week or so.
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By now, everyone knows the story of Michael Phelps, who graciously offered his spot in the 400 medley relay to teammate Ian Crocker, perhaps putting Phelps&#39; record splurge in Athens in jeopardy.
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By Lee Graves, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Dec. 6--They'll be catching stripers -- not catfish -- but the winning  margin might be just a whisker.   That's the prediction of David Dudley of Lynchburg.
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A maverick prospector plans to scoop gold and silver from the bottom of the sea. Is it an environmental improvement or the beginning of a disaster? Plus: Nautilus Minerals' video calling card and a podcast with writer Joshua Davis from Wired magazine.
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By Scott Richardson  Jonn Graham doesn't wait for warm weather to chase smallmouth bass.  He fishes as long as the ice is off area rivers, including the Mackinaw and Vermilion.
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This story can make you money -- if it's true.
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Lake Loramie: Bass fishing has been very good early and late near the banks. Artificial crawfish crankbaits have been working well. Catfish are all over the banks, hitting nightcrawlers, stinkbaits and minnows intended for crappies.
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By Mike Jackson Daily Herald Outdoors Writer  Fish catches made by several junior anglers lead the list of pending records awaiting certification by the IGFA (International Gamefish Association).
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By Bob Hood, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 25--The largemouth bass is the king of freshwater fishing in Texas, so the sand bass must be the crown prince.
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By JIM FREDA  The striped bass action was very good last week, right up until Saturday at the Shrewsbury Rocks, but then the action slowed almost overnight. From Sunday through the early part of this week, boaters struggled to put together a catch.
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A Howard County angler caught Maryland's biggest largemouth bass last weekend in the Spoils area of the Potomac just above Wilson Bridge in Prince George's County.
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Federal authorities along the West Coast have seized in recent weeks more than 600,000 pounds of suspected illegal Chilean sea bass, a &#36;10 million haul that environmentalists say reflects a thriving black market trade in the delicate, tasty fish.
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The 59th Martha's Vineyard Bass and Bluefish Derby has begun but the bass and bluefish decided to take a pass on the first week. There were stripers running in the 35-pound range, so we know there are bigger fish to come as the water cools.
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By Will Elliott  Outdoor Life magazine editors report this month what Buffalo- area anglers have known for decades -- there's spectacular fishing in Western New York waters.
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By JOHN SEEWER  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.