For Freshwater Anglers, the Paddlefish Delivers
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DALLAS _ In late May, Steven McBride of Yukon, Okla., caught a 114-pound paddlefish from northern Oklahoma's Arkansas River. The fish was in a stretch of river just below Kaw Lake.  When McBride hooked the fish, he thought it was a small one because it swam toward his boat.
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By Larry Parsons, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Dec. 18--It's not a good mix. Lots of dirt and gravel running off backcountry roads into streams where steelhead trout go to spawn.   All the sediment mucks up the gravel the fish need to make new steelhead.
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By BOB RIEPENHOFF  For the fifth straight year, anglers enjoyed fantastic chinook fishing on Lake Michigan, reeling in the second-highest number of fish in 40 years, according to recently analyzed angler surveys.
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This pilot fish is the on-site support guy for a moderately large post office stocked with custom-designed point-of-sale systems for the window clerks. That means there's only so much he can do.
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ANGLERS on the Dee received a boost this week when 3,000 breamwere released into the river.   The fish had been shipped up to Farndon, near Wrexham, from the Environment Agency's fish farmat Calverton, Nottinghamshire.
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BARTONVILLE, Ill., Sept 13 (Reuters Life!) - Chris Brackett   was stalking Asian carp on the Illinois River, when several of   the skittish fish he was pursuing suddenly began leaping into   his boat.
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By Jeri Krentz, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 24--Christian Wurtz steadies himself at the bow as his boat idles near a Lake Norman shore. There's a chill in the air; the gray sky looks smudged.   He chooses a spinning rod, already baited, and casts toward the riprap.
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In the Agua Boa, an upper tributary of the Amazon near the Venezuelan border in Brazil, fly fishing for peacock bass is a favorite pastime.
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To catch a mature Lake Ontario king salmon, with the trees showing the first of their fall colors, makes for a rare fishing experience.
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By JOHN FLESHER  TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - It hardly seems fair, but water creatures nimble enough to avoid being gobbled up by predators might harm their species more than help, new research suggests.
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By Mark Taylor, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Sep. 17--Standing high on the bank of the river, the burly young fisherman scanned the clear pool below, and smiled when he saw the half-dozen steelhead finning in the current.
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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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Even with the big winds from the week's cold front keeping many boats ashore, there is a sense that the roundup just before the fall migration is about to begin. That means lots of fattened fish -- stripers and bluefish mainly -- are on the move and doing their best to load up on food before the 1,000-mile swim south. ...
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By Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune  Feb. 18--BIG BAY, Mich. -- Deep in the rugged hills of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a meandering river harbors giant fish that once thrived throughout Lake Superior and its tributaries.
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CARP fishing is the UK's fastest-growing freshwater sport.   That's why People Sportand Shakespeare have linked to present a 12ft (3.60m) Ugly Stik carp rod (pictured) AND a Powerplay front- drag fixed-spool reel to the freshwater winner in this month's competition.
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By Justin Miller, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Sep. 7--September 7, 2006 - Salmon anglers looking to haul in bright, fresh fish might want to think about heading to the Sacramento River.
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Our wet spring has given one nearby fishery at lift and started a second one moving in the right direction. "Sweet Briar is plum full," Paul Bailey, the south-central fisheries district supervisor for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, said Tuesday.