Well, the native fish folks are at it again, stirring the pot and doing weird stuff in public. They’re relentless like that—but in a good way. A week ago Friday I joined some of them in fishing for ...

Jimmy Fee with a bowfin that sucked up a fresh shad chunk. September is a funky month. It’s still kind of summer but also a little bit fall. It’s a transitional time, which means summer patterns for ...

THREE RIVERS AREA — “Cast to those bushes,” I said to Larry Stark one hot afternoon on an Arkansas oxbow lake. He did as I suggested and retrieved his lure across the bottom. The plastic worm moved ...

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One reason why we love living in the Lowcountry is the wide variety of fish species that call this area home. A native species that doesn’t always seem to get the respect it deserves is the bowfin ...

The question of bowfin vs snakehead isn’t so much a matter of which is better—but of which is which. These long, snake-like fish are easily confused with one another. And that’s a problem, because ...

A bowfisherman in Minnesota arrowed a rare, golden bowfin over the weekend. Jack Mensing, of Perham, Minnesota, harvested the fish while out at night with a couple friends, and he shared photos of the ...

Frank Hubert Jr. with the state-record bowfin he caught in December; Hubert caught the fish on a custom lure that his nephew made. Photos courtesy Frank Hubert Jr. Frank Hubert Jr. had been watching ...

GODWIN — More than 20 years ago, a group of local folks who like to fish decided to get together for a competition. They would target a local "trash fish" that most don't bother to cook, although it ...

The party boats started to get back out on the water Thursday after the swells subsided from Hurricane Jose. Captain Willie Egerter of the Dauntless party boat in Point Pleasant Beach said the ocean ...