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College Fishing Championship 2011

April 4, 2011   |  From News Articles

HARDIN, KY -- Murray State University is gearing up to host the National Guard FLW College Fishing National Championship April 7-9 on Kentucky/Barkley lakes. The University of Florida team of Jake Gipson and Matt Wercinski won the first ever national championship last year and will defend their title this year...

Go Fish Georgia!

March 18, 2011   |  From News Articles

SOCIAL CIRCLE, GA -- Aimlessly casting a line and hoping for a bite is history thanks to Georgia's online fishing prospects. Anglers of all skill levels can benefit from these prospect guides that detail 31 reservoirs and 18 rivers and include maps, local weather forecasts, best bets and species-specific techniques,...

Found: fine American fishing tackle, 12 millennia old

March 14, 2011   |  From News Articles

They are a clue to the lifestyles of some of the earliest American settlers, and suggest that two separate cultures lived in North America at the time: one, the well-known Clovis culture, lived inland and feasted on mammoths, mastodons and other mammals; the other was a coastal culture with a...

New State Record Smallmouth

December 2, 2010   |  From News Articles

Conner was fishing at Aurora Reservoir with his dad, Michael Peitsmeyer, in the family's fishing boat that Friday morning. A few days before, Conner had landed his first 'big fish' in the same area, a smallmouth that was more than five pounds. But nothing prepared Conner for the 20¾ inch,...

B.A.S.S. Reconnects The Dots

November 19, 2010   |  From News Articles

The subtle name change from BASS to B.A.S.S. is an affirmation of the company's grass roots, said Jerry McKinnis, who with Don Logan and Jim Copeland acquired B.A.S.S. from ESPN on Nov. 1. "We want to get this back to being a friendlier organization, a we're-here-to-do-whatever-we-need-to-do-to-make-you-happy organization," McKinnis said. "To...

100K Rainbow Trout Run in AZ

November 18, 2010   |  From News Articles

Get your trout fishing gear ready because starting Nov. 17 more than 100,000 rainbow trout will be heading to Arizona's Urban Program lakes during the four-month winter stocking program. "This is a fantastic time to fish our popular urban lakes," said Eric Swanson, urban fisheries program manager. "We are just...

Ranger Boat Founder…To The Hall!

November 10, 2010   |  From News Articles

FLIPPIN, AR -- Ranger Boats founder and fishing industry legend, Forrest L. Wood, received one of the highest honors bestowed on members of the angling community when he was inducted into the International Game Fish Association (IGFA) Hall of Fame on October 26. Wood joins an impressive list of angling...

ESPN Unhooks BASS

November 8, 2010   |  From News Articles

ESPN Inc., announced that it has finalized the sale of BASS, LLC to a group of investors including Don Logan, Jerry McKinnis and Jim Copeland. An agreement in principle was announced in August by ESPN and the transaction was completed Monday. BASS is the largest membership organization of bass anglers...

Record Catfish in Colorado

October 15, 2010   |  From News Articles

AURORA, CO -- A 20-year-old Aurora woman became Colorado's newest fishing state-record holder after landing a 43-pound channel catfish at Aurora Reservoir on Oct. 4. The mammoth fish, caught by Jessica Walton, is the largest channel catfish ever caught in Colorado and the third consecutive state record taken from the...

Fish Scoring With iPhone App

October 12, 2010   |  From News Articles

BLOOMFIELD, NY -- Trophy Score Fishing, an iPhone and iPod Touch application for scoring saltwater and freshwater game fish, is the first mobile application to provide anglers a standard method of scoring their catch and synchronizing to a worldwide no-minimum record book. Trophy Score Fishing is available in the iTunes...

Anti- “Lead Ban” Legislation Proposed

October 6, 2010   |  From News Articles

Lincoln Introduces Lead Protection LegislationWashington, DC -- Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus (CSC) member and former Chairwoman, Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, has introduced S.3850 to protect lead based traditional ammunition and fishing tackle from a potential ban by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Center for Biological Diversity, the American...

Ban On Lead Fishing Tackle

October 4, 2010   |  From News Articles

Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus Fights Proposed Ban of Lead Fishing Tackle Washington, DC -- Seventy-eight members of the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus (CSC) signed a letter delivered last Thursday to Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), urging the agency to dismiss the petition to ban the use of...

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