Feb 09

Ice fishing goes upscale in Mille Lacs, Minn.

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John Lutgen swears he’s not crazy, not like some of those maniacs who’ll ice fish when it’s really, really, really cold.

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Feb 09

End Your Fishing Day With Early 19th Century Beer

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As a few of you pointed out on yesterday’s blog about an ice fishing duo that caught a scuba diver, all is well that ends in free beer.

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Feb 09

Handmade bamboo rods elevate fishing experience

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It takes 260 steps for Alan Kube to transform a piece of bamboo into a handmade fly rod.

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Feb 09

Ice fishing contest features crappies and raffled-off cheese

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The Fish Lake Sportsmens Club Ice Fishing Contest happened Feb. 6 on Fish Lake east of Lydia.

Original post by Jordan Independent – Newspaper and online community for Jordan, Minnesota

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Feb 08

Fishing the Skinny Water

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When I was growing up, the shallow water flats we used to avoid were dubbed “shadow” water by me after I heard an old timer obviously mispronounce the word shallow. Flats back then were huge areas of water that, on a low tide, caused you to run several miles farther than you wanted to run…Read more…
Fishing the Skinny Water originally appeared on About.com Saltwater Fishing on Wednesday, February 9th, 2011 at 05:41:47.
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Feb 08

New Mexico fishing report a ” Feb. 8

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The flow is 240 cfs. Fishing is reported as slow with little pressure. Best bet is through town at city park using worms and spinners.

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Feb 08

Go fishing in the digital ocean while the kids get outdoors and go for a run

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As someone who grew up in a small Newfoundland fishing town, I was instantly intrigued when Japanese toy giant Takara Tomy announced one of its latest products recently.

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Feb 08

Pure Fishing acquires Sebile

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Pure Fishing, Inc., a leading global provider of fishing tackle and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jarden Corporation, today announced that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of the Sebile fishing lure business from Sebile International SA and its subsidiaries, a global supplier of fresh and saltwater fishing lures marketed under the …

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Feb 08

Fishing Louisianas Venice Estuary for Reds on One More Cast With Shaw Grigsby

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New Berlin, Wisconsin-Sportsmen are worried about how last year's oil spill affected the fragile fish populations in the gulf. See up close the effect

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Feb 08

Japan to go fishing … for space debris

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An image created by Australia’s Electro Optic Systems aerospace company shows a view of the Earth from geostationary height depicting swarms of space debris — approximately 50,000 of the half-million or more debris objects greater than 1cm — in Low Earth Orbit .

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Feb 08

Hobbins Joins F3 Board of Directors

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McLEAN, Virginia –Angler/entrepreneur Ben Hobbins of Madison, Wisc. is the latest appointee to the Future Fisherman Foundation’s board of directors. Hobbins turned heads in 2006 with his invention of IronClads™, a line of life-like, soft-plastic fishing lures specially made to be extra-strong and nontoxic. Because these lures stay firmly on the hook, they don’t wind up at the bottom of lakes and rivers like 25 million pounds of other plastic lures each year. The invention has been deemed sweeping, so strong in fact that in 2010, Outdoor Life magazine recognized Hobbins “Innovator” in its “OL 25,” a group of men and women who have had significant positive impact on hunting and fishing. Outdoor Life said, “Hobbins’ eco-friendly IronClads showed that lake and stream clean-up, through tackle innovation, could come from within-from the anglers themselves-rather than from outside preservation groups, reinforcing the idea that sportsmen’s sanctuaries should stay in the hands […]

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Feb 08

Z-Man Chooses Adventure Advertising

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LADSON, S.C. (Jan. 28, 2010) – Z-Man Fishing Products, Inc., makers of the Original ChatterBait®, is pleased to announce the hiring of Adventure Advertising, LLC as its Agency of Record to develop and deploy a multimedia marketing strategy directed at building awareness of Z-Man products and their proprietary brand of ElaZtech® soft plastics.

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Feb 08

Gorie & Alfonso Win National Guard FLW Soldier Appreciation Tournament

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CLEWISTON, Florida – Staff Sgt. Gorie of Tampa, and Sgt. 1st Class Alfonso of Val Rico, Florida., won the National Guard FLW Soldier Appreciation Tournament held on Lake Okeechobee Saturday. The team, fishing with Pickens Plan pro Randy Blaukat of Joplin, Mo., caught three bass for a total of 14 pounds, 15 ounces to take the title and bragging rights amongst their peers.

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Feb 08

Family Fishing Nights Program Returns in May

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LINCOLN, Neb. – Family Fishing Nights has expanded for its third summer of outdoor fun, with more events than ever before, according to the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.
Nebraska’s Youth Fishing Program is sponsoring Family Fishing Nights, which is is an opportunity for people of all ages who have never fished or have not fished in years to learn and enjoy the activity.

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Feb 08

Seizure of Illegally Caught Striped Bass Shuts Down February Gill Season

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Annapolis, MD – The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has shut down the February striped bass gill net season after Natural Resources Police (NRP) confiscated more than 10 tons of illegally caught striped bass in two days. NRP seized the 20,016 pounds of rockfish from four illegally anchored gill nets found near Bloody Point Light, south of Kent Island in the Chesapeake Bay.

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