The beautiful spring weather had given me and my buddy Joe an itch to go fishing, so that’s exactly what we did. We loaded Joe’s johnboat, pulled it to the Arkansas River and launched just after the ...

Q: I would like to know if it’s OK to jug line fish for catfish in California lakes. Jug line fishing is having a float (such as a one-gallon plastic jug) tied to a series of hooks, all on one fishing ...

Many anglers have likely heard the term “jug line,” while others might not know what it is or how useful one can be for fisheries managers. A jugline is a type of passive fishing gear composed of a ...

There is nothing new about jug fishing. It’s been around for years. The old bleach bottles and plastic milk cartons have evolved into many different ways to fish jugs. Fact is, jugs are seldom used ...

Like many other leisure activities, fishing has had its share of innovation and technological advances. But there’s something to be said for “old school” methods — a cane pole, a cork and a worm or ...

A 15-year-old girl from New Richmond may have broken an Ohio state record on Sunday, April 7, for the largest blue catfish, with the monster weighing in at a whopping 101.11 pounds. "He was bigger ...

Editor's note: This article is the second in a series detailing record sized catfish David Rauls recently caught. Leaving his job responsibilities as a network and video teleconference administrator ...

Idling the 14-foot Jon boat around the next slough of Yellow Creek, Steve Hallman tells his son Jesse Hallman to spotlight the far Mimosa tree limb. The reflector attached to the limb line lights up ...

The river’s water level finally had fallen after weeks of being above flood stage, and the current in the old slough carried green water instead of the sediment-saturated, chocolate-color sludge that ...

EAST OAHU, Hawaii (Island News) -- A young Hawaiian monk seal was killed by fishing gear in early September on an island on East Oahu after a jug fishing expedition. The two-year-old Hawaiian monk ...