Fishing

One of the things people like to say about my job, is that it sure must be nice to hunt and fish all the time. I always agree, because that sounds a lot better than mostly sitting at a desk pounding on the keyboard while waiting for the next Google Meet to start. While my job puts me into the field...

Nothing says summer like spending a long day on the water and then bringing home a mess of fish for the pan. For many anglers, a summer fish fry is part of the season and every bit as iconic as watching baseball, launching fireworks, having picnics, and cannonballing into the local pool or swimming...

A bowfisherman just landed the biggest flathead catfish ever recorded in Michigan. According to a Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) press release, Codie Carlson of Newport, Michigan, was fishing from shore on Plum Creek at dawn on Sunday, June 29, when the epic catch went down. Carlson...

Whaling is a generational profession, steeped in lore and heritage. Burly hunters take to the sea in hopes of impaling the largest mammals on earth. Not without controversy, the tradition of whaling still occurs in far-off places. Visceral images and videos occasionally leak, stoking the flames of...

Much of the outdoor world is dominated by single-species pursuits. On the hunting side, this makes sense. After all, if you draw an antelope tag, you’re not super likely to quickly try to find another big game species to hunt out in the sagebrush. When it comes to fishing, the single-species pursuit...

A Florida angler recently landed a whopper snakehead—and put his name in the record books. According to a Facebook post, Ryan Alvarez went fishing in South Florida’s Broward County this spring with a specific goal in mind: catching a big snakehead. He succeeded while using a Z-Man chatterbait at a...

While there is plenty of bitching in the hunting world when it comes to overcrowding, fishing is a little bit different. It’s not like you can’t find once-secret bodies of water, and the fisherman who lament the extra attention, but it’s just different. This might be because of the seasonality of...

No one ever dreams small. From childhood, we fantasize about becoming astronauts, movie stars, or the president, and imagine owning flashy cars and elaborate mansions. As we get older and our goals become more realistic, but this internal desire for grandeur rarely diminishes. From getting our next...

The family of a man who died in a boating accident is suing Major League Fishing (MLF) for what they say were negligent decisions made during the day of an April fishing tournament. On April 16, 2025, a competitive angler from Georgia named Flint Davis struck a fishing boat helmed by guide Gary...

My dad was never a fisherman. He’d dabbled in it here and there, but he grew up as a city boy, and fishing was never something he was passionate about or bothered to get good at. He was a good dad, so he’d begrudgingly take me out on the water when I became a fishing-obsessed youngster. However, his...

Spring arrives with a vibrant burst of color that releases us from the dull gray bonds of winter. It’s a time of new beginnings and new adventures when outdoors folk can finally get back out into the woods and waters they love. For anglers, spring is an incredibly special time as every fish, from...

Brevard County, Florida, has no chill—at least, not if you're a kid trying to fish a neighborhood pond. Less than 12 months after a Palm Bay man was arrested for allegedly holding a group of young anglers at gunpoint, a Melbourne woman has been arrested for doing the same. Both incidents involved...