Category: Striped bass
IGFA To Make $1 Mil Ruling on AL Rigs
Here’s a good story. Involves a bass fisherman, Bull Shoals Lake (MO), official fish record-keepers the International Game Fish Association, the Missouri DNR, $100,000 and $1 million. Excerpts from here and here: > Rodney Ply of Diamond City has lived on and fished Bull Shoals Lake his entire life. His once-in-a lifetime catch came earlier [...]
Should Trolling Rigs Be Banned?
[Update: Heard this rig was already banned for some Seminole derby. Can anyone confirm? Another update: Word is fish caught with these things can have a couple to several hooks stuck in 'em. Confirm?] Almost choked on my fruit pie when I saw the rig Paul Elias used to win the Guntersville FLW. It’s a [...]
What? How Stripers Got In Bull Shoals
News just out of a new Missoura state record striper caught out of Bull Shoals. Check the pic – looks like a limit of NJ smallies in that belly. Or maybe a trolling motor bat’ry. Ever wonder about the sometimes questionable logic used for stocking stripers or wipers in fisheries? Then you’ll enjoy this. An [...]
Using Derbies for Fishery Management
Could fishing tourneys be a valid fish management tool? Seems like it. Maybe they should be. Cases in point: > The Bonneville Power Administration in Washington state pays out over $1 mil a year for catching and removing pikeminnows (aka, squawfish), which prey on salmon. > An Aussie tourney – the Bellingen Eel Fishing Championships, [...]
What’s Been Your Longest Fight?
Does anyone try to “fight” a fish anymore – at least anyone who isn’t trying to set a line-class world record? I don’t think so, and I like to think derby bass fishermen had a lot to do with that. “That” being shorter fights and better fish survival. Thought of it while reading this article [...]
