Their Carp Runneth Over: Back River Population Keeps Family's Fishing Hobby Thriving
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By Julie Scharper, The Baltimore Sun  Jun. 3--On a hazy spring morning, George Malone steers his johnboat toward the head of the Back River in Essex, passing the twin golden domes of the sewage treatment plant and gliding under the Eastern Avenue bridge.
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Biologists are checking the diversity of fish in the Lower Salt River and reservoir lakes.
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BARTONVILLE, Ill. (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 Ryan Teague Beckwith, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Dec. 18--Conservationists found an unlikely ally in the fight to save Marks Creek: a home builder.
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SAULT STE. MARIE, Ontario _ Chinook salmon haven't reached the rapids of the St. Marys River in fishable numbers yet. They're still stacked up like cordwood farther downstream, where anglers in boats are having a field day.
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By Al Jones, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 8--BILOXI -- The Mississippi Gulf Coast Billfish Classic might have taken a step back last year following Hurricane Katrina with the second lowest number of boats.
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By Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Dec. 10--Summer fishing pressure and walleye catches on Minnesota's share of Upper Red Lake were well within management goals, but anglers will face a two-fish limit and a 17- to 26-inch protected slot at least until next summer.
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  May 31--If you're heading to Horsethief, leave your big boat behind.   The Idaho Department of Fish and Game drained the reservoir last fall to remove illegally stocked yellow perch, and it hasn't refilled enough to make the boat ramps useable.
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By Charles Walsh, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Jun. 17--Sometimes no matter what your fishing preference, you just have to go where the (big) fish are.
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Floridaâs season of âsturgeon strikesâ â collisions between the leaping fish and hapless boaters â is under way.
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CULEBRA CREEK, Colo  - As the snow melts from the towering peaks in the distance, Culebra Creek runs fast and the trout are biting. But Van Beecham, a fourth generation fishing guide, is uneasy.
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By JOHN FLESHER TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - It hardly seems fair, but new research suggests that water creatures nimble enough to avoid being gobbled up by predators may harm their species more than help.
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By Steve Vantreese, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Mar. 14-- -- Fishermen should revel in a bountiful crappie season on Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley this year -- and they may look back on it all the more fondly when fishing sags next year.
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Lake Loramie: Bass fishing has been very good early and late near the banks. Artificial crawfish crankbaits have been working well. Catfish are all over the banks, hitting nightcrawlers, stinkbaits and minnows intended for crappies.
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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.
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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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By David Bracken, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 17--RALEIGH -- When John Gehringer caught a 7-inch bluegill in Lake Raleigh on Saturday morning, it was a long time coming.   Not for 8-year-old John, a savvy fisherman used to such triumphs, but for the lake.