All of us who love to fish have a story or two about the one that got away, don’t we? Invariably, the tale involves hooking the fish of a lifetime and losing it to unforeseen circumstances or mistakes. Trust me, I have made my share of mistakes when it comes to large, prized game fish. Your blogger mishandling a nice-sized channel catfish. Photo by Rich Berggren/Conservation Officer with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. Without question, these stories, however embellished, …
Read More »Big Cats!
My buddy and co-blogger Greg Wagner posted a great blog on catch & release again last week. I know a lot of people see his “stuff”, but I want to spread it around even more. So, yes, again I am being lazy, Greg already did the work, all I am doing is suggesting you follow the link and READ IT! Release Big Catfish Unharmed Greg does a great job explaining why the release of fish, especially big fish is important. …
Read More »Going fishing? Don’t let the big one get away!
All of us who love to fish have a story or two about the one that got away, don’t we? Invariably, the tale involves hooking the fish of a lifetime and losing it to unforeseen circumstances or mistakes. Trust me, I have made my share of mistakes when it comes to large, prized game fish. Your blogger mishandling a nice-sized channel catfish. Photo by Rich Berggren/Conservation Officer with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. Without question, these stories, however embellished, …
Read More »Protected: Better Fish Pictures
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Read More »What Lurks Beneath, June 2018
It has been awhile since I have teased you with photos of some of the big fish that our field biologists have had their hands on. Time to change that. . . . We do a lot of our fish population sampling in the fall, but there is also some that is done in the spring and summer. Again let me say that when pointy-headed fisheries biologists are sampling fish they are NOT just trying to catch the biggest ones, …
Read More »How To Not Let the Big One Get Away
I do not do this often, but from time to time I will copy “stuff” I have found on other blogs or somewhere else on the interwebs and post it here on my blog. This week my buddy Greg Wagner wrote a great blog on not just hooking big fish but then landing them, and what to do with them after they are landed. Yes, I talked to Greg while he was writing his blog and he quotes me in …
Read More »Master Angler Awards
Let me say a few things about our Master Angler Award program in my blog today. . . . First of all, yes, we are running a little behind in getting Master Angler certificates mailed out. If you sent in a Master Angler application since late summer and are wondering what happened to it, please be patient. We are working a body short here in the office right now, and had to re-order the pins we send out for catch …
Read More »Catch and Release Works! Big Time!
Many times I have shared how catch & release can make fishing better, for everyone. The fact is catch & release is an important part of sportfishing today. In some cases that catch & release will be required by regulation, in other cases more and more anglers are choosing to voluntarily release fish, big fish especially. I have noted how big fish can be released and “recycled”, caught again, Fish Recycling. Here is another example that caught my eye this …
Read More »Motivation
If you need it, there are all kinds of books, videos, and speakers available today to help you get motivated. Motivated to do what? I do not know, I guess motivated to do whatever you want to do, whoever you want to be. I want to catch big fish. Nothing motivates me more than some pictures or better yet, videos. . . . I know these videos have been present on the internet for at least a few days already, …
Read More »Another Huge Muskie
Big fish fascinate me, especially big, bad, top-of-the-food-chain, apex predator fish! So, I hope you do not mind my sharing news about another one that was caught in another state again this past week. A couple weeks ago I blogged about a big muskie caught from Mille Lacs in Minnesota, on a fly rod, World Records! Well, if you thought that was a big fish. . . ain’t nothing. Check out this one caught from the same water! Here is …
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