When should you use octopus, circle, barbless, single siwash, and treble hooks? What's the difference between them, and ...

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On Thursday morning, four young men between the ages of 12 and 14 from east Bell County stayed focused for a full four hours and landed exactly 340 fish while fishing with me on Belton Lake. One of ...

An angler lifts a prize ocean salmon caught off of the California Coast. (CDFW photo) Question: I fish out of Port San Luis. When fishing for salmon in a private boat, as long as I am trolling with ...

The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission recently directed state fisheries managers to make barbless hook rules voluntary instead of mandatory. In some areas, such as the Snake River and its ...

Changes, some significant, are in store for hunting and angling in Oregon next year, but anglers want the state’s Fish and Wildlife Commission to take a special look at perhaps the biggest, as-yet ...

In the Nov. 14 meeting of the Massachusetts Fish and Wildlife Board, there was a presentation of proposed new regulations for Catch and Release (C&R) areas throughout the state that would allow only ...

It’s hot as hell. You’re sweaty and thirsty and hungry and now you have to tie on a new hook. You can’t tie the hook because you can’t see and your readers are over there between the cooler and bait ...

Anglers in Washington could soon have the choice to fish with barbed hooks while pursuing salmon, steelhead and other species in much of the Columbia River Basin. The Washington Fish and Wildlife ...

Sport anglers have hit the crossroads when it comes to using barbed or barbless hooks in the Columbia River for salmon and steelhead. As in past years, sport anglers will not be required to switch to ...