How to Catch a Fish With a Carrot
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EVERYONE knows that carrots are supposed to help you see in the dark.   Now they can also help you catch a fish or mend your car.   Two British scientists have found a way to turn the vegetable into a solid mouldable material as versatile as plastic and as a strong as carbon fibre.
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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 Keith Elliott  What do you buy for the fisherman who thinks he's got everything? Take no notice of those brain-dead guides that only plug their advertisers' wares: what you really need is the Elliott Guide to a Creative Angling Christmas.
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By Rachana Rathi, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Sep. 16--The state Department of Environmental Protection says it has a way to help local fishermen catch more large trout. The fishermen say no thanks.
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By Lee Graves, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 7--Saltwater anglers who have set their sights on catching summer flounder and tautog this year will be aiming at moving targets.
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By DAMON TATEM  BEACH, PIER AND BRIDGE FISHING  Corolla to Coquina Beach   Pier fishing should be good all along the northern beaches this week if weather conditions are good. Pier anglers will catch the usual summertime mix of small fish.
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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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By Bryan Brasher brasher@commercialappealcom  The Tennessee rule that limits sport fishermen to one catfish per day over 34 inches - and commercial fishermen to none - has met with widespread approval among avid catfishermen and has prompted several states to consider passing similar rules.
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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.
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Managers of US marine fisheries may have overlooked a cunning predator that takes almost a quarter of the catch of threatened species: Uncle Joe, the fishing nut.
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By Jack Minch, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Sep. 7--PEPPERELL -- Charles Shadan sat at a small work desk armed with spools of colorful thread as he meticulously put together a fishing fly.
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Scientists have developed a new carrot that increases your body's ability to absorb calcium, a development which could portend more genetically modified fruits and vegetables with novel nutritional characteristics.
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By Geri Parlin, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 22--Food for the table, good nutrition, a sense of neighborhood and a lesson in community spirit.   That's a lot to ask of a carrot.
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By Fergus Sheppard  WHEN playing the game of love, it is a given that any amorous male is going to show off his best side to get the girl.   But new research suggests that even the humble guppy fish puts its best fin forward when it comes to winning a mate.
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It's possible to find out quickly which fish to buy and which to avoid.
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By LEE GRAVES  John Crews wouldn't mind finishing his fishing tournament the way Stephen Carr was supposed to start his.  With hoopla befitting a hero.
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Naomi Ehrich Leonard trains robotic fish to swim the oceans and glean information. The fish also helped her pick up a $500,000 'genius' prize from the MacArthur Foundation. Read the first in a series of Wired News profiles featuring MacArthur winners. By Kari Lynn Dean.