Sep 10
In just three trips to Nantahala Lake this month, angler Mark Swann caught two North Carolina record kokanee salmon. The latest is a 3.07-pound fish that measured 19½ inches in length. Swann caught his first record-breaker, a 2.48 pounder, on Aug. 3, only to see the record broken the next day by 9-year-old Levi Towery, who brought in a salmon that topped his by a mere two-tenths of a pound.
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Sep 10
Fall fishing can be delightfulAthens Daily Review, TX – 2 hours agoAutumn is near, my attitude is better, and some of the best fishing opportunities of the year are at hand. Fish notice the changes too. …
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Sep 10
August 2007 American Sportfishing Association Policy Watch
Policy Watch is a monthly update for the sportfishing community about the American Sportfishing Association’s Government Affairs activities.
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Sep 10
LONG SEASON AND TWO CANVASBACKS
Rules approved for Utah’s waterfowl hunt
SALT LAKE CITY — A long 107-day season and a seven duck bag limit—which includes two canvasbacks—await Utah’s waterfowl hunters this season.
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Sep 10
SALT LAKE CITY — The chance of drawing a permit to hunt wild turkeys in Utah next spring just got a lot better.
Photo from U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service At their Sept. 6 meeting in Salt Lake City, members of the Utah Wildlife Board approved the largest wild turkey permit increase in the state’s history.
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Sep 10
The NJ DEP Division of Fish and Wildlife’s popular Take a Kid Hunting Programs for the fall will begin on Saturday, September 22 with the Youth Bow Hunt for deer. Additional days for firearm deer, waterfowl, and pheasant / upland bird will follow.
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Sep 10
Jon Michael McGrath, Tulsa, is a 15-year old skeet shooting phenom, currently holding 14 Junior World Skeet Titles, three Junior National Titles and a United States Junior National Championship. And though he is currently training at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., he’s making time to visit with fellow Oklahoma shooters both old and young alike at this year’s Oklahoma Wildlife Expo.
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Sep 10
The American Fisheries Society recently honored the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation Fisheries Division with a prestigious “Outstanding Project of the Year Award†for its renovation of the Evening Hole and Lost Creek areas of the Lower Mountain Fork River.
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Sep 10
Girl, 13, bids to keep fishing in the family's 310 year seafaring …Daily Mail, UK – 2 hours agoBecci is hooked on fishing – and is determined to turn her hobby into a career as the historic custom is reaching the end of the line. …
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Sep 10
Wildlife Department to use caviar to fund paddlefish management program
At its September meeting, the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission approved an extensive business plan for a pilot paddlefish research and caviar processing program scheduled to begin operating in February. An overview of the plan was provided to the Commission by the Department’s Brent Gordon, northeast region fisheries supervisor, and Lt. Keith Green, game warden supervisor.
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Sep 10
Reduced fire danger allows fire restrictions to be lifted throughout the state
The combination of an increased amount of precipitation, and a return to more normal late summer weather patterns and conditions, with shorter days, cooler temperatures and higher humidity, has reduced the potential for fires to start and spread.
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Sep 10
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore.—The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission today unanimously adopted the Rogue River Spring Chinook Conservation Plan and related regulation changes.
The conservation plan addresses the decline of spring chinook through management techniques and new harvest rules. Before Lost Creek Dam was built, wild spring chinook returns averaged about 28,000. Since 1990, returns have averaged about 9,000 despite decreased harvest rates in the ocean fisheries.
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Sep 10
Poor year for salmon fishingAftenposten, Norway – 1 hour agoSalmon-fishing fans travel to Norway every year in the hopes of hooking a trophy to two, but many went home disappointed this past summer. …
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Sep 10
September starts a cooling process and the baits start to migrate thru. big action the rest of the month. (Read more)
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Sep 10
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Duchess 'launches' new fishing port lifeboat stationFish Update, UK – 1 hour agoTHE Duchess of Kent has officially opened a new lifeboat station at one of the Yorkshire Coast's most important fishing ports. The new base at Whitby, …
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