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Coping with reality of depleted fish stocksFriday, July 15, 2011 @ 8:05PMA pod of small bluefish gorge themselves on the massive shoal of sand eels that darkens the waters under the boat. Above, a couple of hundred terns hover and whirl, eyeing the swirling mass of eels like a pack of dogs hanging out at the back door of a butcher shop.

Black Death on the Irwell By Mark AndrewsFriday, July 15, 2011 @ 6:11PMMark Andrews chronicles the rise and massive decline of Manchester's river Irwell. I've run Wickenhall bottom lake in Newhey for around 8 years now.

Angling Essays - The IntroductionFriday, July 15, 2011 @ 9:27AMGlancing behind me I could see my footprints where they’d flattened the dew-soaked grass. On my left the river flowed quietly, barely competing with the early morning birdsong and the soft sound of my tread.

Rodbuilder MemoriesThursday, July 14, 2011 @ 7:20AMPeter Henton casts his mind back 60 years to the time the bug seized him and asks, are we the lucky ones? I was eleven years old. A very impressionable, eager to learn, bright boy at school but then it all fell apart on a visit to an uncle in Poole, Dorset.

Lynn Burkhead: San Juan River magicTuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 3:44AMDriving east from Aztec, New Mexico along Hwy. 173, the desert wilderness seems to be virtually devoid of life. Any life.

It's transition time for northern pike in Colorado watersWednesday, June 15, 2011 @ 2:16AMIn the angling realm, it's a debate that has lingered longer than the wise old owl has pondered the number of licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.

Outdoors: Drum roam into pictureSaturday, May 21, 2011 @ 11:33PMWithin a week or two, I can pretty much tell the time of year by what's swimming in the bay or flying overhead. A former colleague calls it the Chesapeake's "comings and goings." By mid-May, black drum usually swim the shoals between the Choptank and Poplar Island, with Memorial Day weekend considered the peak of the run. While the Stone Rock-Sharps Island complex is perhaps the best known black ...

Fishing report - May 17Thursday, May 19, 2011 @ 1:41AMThis fishing report, provided by the Department of Game and Fish and The Fish Phone, has been generated from the best information available from area officers, anglers, guides and local businesses. Conditions may vary as stream, lake and weather...

Hidden spots: Michigan's best-kept secrets of trout streams and fishing holesSunday, April 24, 2011 @ 7:13AMThe opening day of trout season on Saturday no doubt will see Michigan’s most famous trout steams, the Au Sable and Manistee, flailed to a froth.