Storm is Gone: Let's Get Back to Fishing
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By Steve Pollick, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Feb. 16--The western Lake Erie ice has survived the onslaught of this week's blizzard-like Nor'easter, and fishermen were heading back out to favorite fishing zones yesterday.
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By Bill Dyroff  Fish the Net   Re
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By JIM FREDA  Boaters finally got a chance to get back out on the water this past weekend as rain, wind and big swells had been the pattern the last two weeks, keeping many boats tied to the docks.
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Feel like a fish out of water? You may not be too far off.
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By Gareth Purnell  THE area's pools have fished remarkably well following the snow and the freeze.  For instance, I've always thought of Barston Lakes as a great summer water where sport drops off in winter because it's so shallow.
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By Steve Ford  Chill winds out of the northwest and frost on the windows in the morning don't exactly make fishermen think of spring.  But then I'm not most fishermen. The unusually warm winter we've been having has me champing at the bit earlier than ever. But it's not just that.
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By Kevin Klott, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  May 27--Thousands of Alaskans will leave Anchorage this weekend carrying fishing rods and the hope of starting their summer fishing season with a bang.   Unfortunately, cool weather has dampened many anglers' prospects.
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By Lew Freedman, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 17--EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. -- It's a terrible thing when you have a one-track mind, as so many fishermen do. Here I was in northwest Arkansas and all I could think about was hybrid stripers on Beaver Lake.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. _ Florida's snook were in full retreat from winter, moving back to what vestiges of warm water they could find.  That put them in the "skinny" water of bayous, channels and backwater flats _ saltwater so shallow that it sometimes barely covers their fins.
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MIAMI - By the time spear fisherman Ignacio Siberio realized his boat had drifted away in the chilly waters off the Florida Keys, it was too late to signal for help.
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Late summer usually gives some renewed bounce to the fishing season, and this year is no exception. Most waters that were abandoned by striped bass in midsummer have been churning with bass, some heavyweights. Bluefish are also appearing more regularly, with the exception of the far north, where their absence has been noted by the arrival of mackerel.
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By Ray Sasser, The Dallas Morning News  Jun. 21--POTTSBORO, Texas -- I tried to go striper fishing at Lake Texoma on Monday, but it was a lost cause.
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This week's rundown of fishing reports from around the region: Area A: Mackerel are biting in the inner harbors and islands, and are expected to pick up as the weather heats up. Bait fishing is open from Small Point to Boothbay, though the weather has led to mixed results because of cooler water temperatures. The same problem is keeping striper ...
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Two contradictory developments always occur as we get into autumn, the water cooling and winds often brisk across the choppy seas -- the fishing improves at the same time fishermen disappear. The first wave of dwindling anglers occurs after Labor Day when the vacationers return from their seaside rentals, and as September deepens more boats return to their cradles for ...
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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 Doug Pike, Houston Chronicle  Dec. 19--Winter coastal-fishing strategies are as dependent on water temperature as on any other factors. To catch more trout and reds now, keep one eye on the wind, one on the tide and another on the thermometer.
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MIAMI _ From time to time, I have lamented in this space about what I call the bite of the wrong fish. In other words, you go out fishing with a noted guide in order to write a story about a particular species and that turns out to be the one species you can't catch.