'Headless body' fished from water
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A boat fishing in the Clyde has hauled up what is believed to be a headless body.
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The fossilized neck bones of a 230-million-year-old sea creature have features suggesting that the animal&#39;s snakelike throat could flare open and create suction that would pull in prey.
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Fishermen in Zanzibar have caught a  coelacanth, an ancient fish once thought to have become extinct  when it disappeared from fossil records 80 million years ago,  an official said on Sunday.
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Wildlife officials in China released a rare paddlefish into Yangtze River Sunday after nursing it back to health from injuries inflicted by fishermen.
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By BOB RIEPENHOFF  Phelps  We were drifting our boat just outside a big rock bar on North Twin Lake, bouncing fathead minnows off the bottom, when the first walleye hit.  It was one of those sneaky, light hits that make you wonder whether the jig just bumped a rock.
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In fly fishing, outfoxing a creature with a brain the size of a pea can require a Zen-like approach, which may not come naturally.
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By Tom Pelton, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 15--A parasite that deforms the spines and skulls of trout -- making them swim in circles often until they die -- has infected 80,000 fish in two hatcheries in Western Maryland, state officials said yesterday.
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MONTAUK, New York  - In this Long Island fishing hamlet, hundreds of adults drank beer and children marveled at the bloodied sharks caught in a fishing contest, including a heart from a gutted 180-pound (82-kg) thresher shark that several children poked with awe.
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A tutti fruitti boilie did the trick for Carl Hopkins when he fished the Specimen Lake at White Springs Fishery and caught a 31.5lb mirror carp.   Experienced carp fisherman Matthew Morgan landed a 28.5lb carp but lost a few estimated at well over 40lb.
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By ANNIE FLANZRAICH SEATTLE - A fisherman had two of his fingertips reattached after cutting them off to free himself from a sinking boat, his employer said Tuesday.
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis. - The fish's long shadow slid under the ice, causing Darren Horness to blink. &quot;I was skimming some ice off the hole, and all the sudden I thought I caught a little bit of movement, and I had to kind of take a step back,&quot; said Horness, 36, of Howards Grove.
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A decomposing whale washed up yesterday near Scotch Beach. Reports indicate the whale is baleen, using plates along its upper jaw to strain food from water, said Scott Comings, director of Block Island programs for The Nature Conservancy.
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GREENVILLE, Maine - Anglers, don't be alarmed if you catch a trout with an antenna coming out of its belly.
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Feel like a fish out of water? You may not be too far off.
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FLY fisherman Brian Lillie is celebrating a hap
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By JOE MACALUSO  Where are the fish?  It's a question fishermen ask now that south Louisiana is in winter's grip: The answer's simple - in the water!  Dudley Vandenborre and Wayne Murray aren't curt with their answers.
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NEW BEDFORD, Mass. - Divers found the body of a crewman on a sunken fishing boat in Nantucket Sound on Wednesday, and the search for two more men ended because debris in the wreck makes more dives too hazardous.