Clinton Lake Angler Has Amazonian Experience
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By Scott Richardson  CLINTON - DeWitt County is a long way from the Amazon River in South America. But that didn't stop a toothy pacu from taking bait that Virgil Hunter of Weldon dangled in the hot-water discharge of Clinton Lake about 5 p.m. Saturday.
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By Brent Frazee, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Sep. 24--N ORFORK, Ark. -- One fishing boat stood out on Norfork Lake the other day.   Others were clustered in the shallows, where fishermen worked rocky banks and points.
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Scientists in Brazil claim to have established that the Amazon, not the Nile, is the longest river in the world.
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Gary White remembers landing in a grassy field in Ecuador, canoeing two hours to a remote village and finding a gas-powered pump that was supposed to help the impoverished residents get water.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- A swath of Amazon rain forest the size of Alabama was placed under government protection yesterday in a region known for violent conflicts among loggers, ranchers, and environmentalists.
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IQUITOS, Peru -- A few miles downriver from this city in the western Amazon jungle, Andres Alvarado hops off a boat and walks up a muddy path to a hollowed-out log resting on a wooden stand. He beats the log with a stick, sending a series of low-pitched tones into the rain forest.
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By Mike Joseph, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Sep. 25--BENNER TOWNSHIP -- The township will support public fishing as a "primary activity" in Spring Creek Canyon, according to a memorandum of understanding between supervisors and the state Fish and Boat Commission.
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By BOB BUEHN  Fishermen dream of the chance to fish a pristine wilderness lake, casting to fish that have never seen a lure.  Most probably imagine a floatplane trip into northern Canada or other remote location.
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Rubber tappers,  fishermen and Indians in western Brazil have joined  environmental groups in battling a planned $9 billion  hydroelectric project that will flood one of the Amazon's main  tributaries.
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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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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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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.
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By Dylan T. Lovan  JAMESTOWN, Ky. - Rollie Vonlinger looked sadly across Lake Cumberland at some of the fishing spots he has hit over the past 30 years. It is going to be hard to get to some of those spots from now on, because the boat ramp he normally uses no longer reaches the water.
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In Costa Rica, there are fishermen, and then there are members of the Club Nacional de Pesca.
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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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By Ed Godfrey, The Daily Oklahoman  Jun. 3--LAKE EUFAULA -- "I think I am going to find out today how many fish my live well will hold," said Gene Gilliland of Norman, as he set the hook on yet another of the "Gentle Giant's" feisty sand bass.
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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.