A crowd of schoolchildren stood at a bend in a creek under the shadow of the Warm Springs Dam last week and watched 14 large steelhead trout thrashing against the current. It was the last push for the ...
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The biggest myths about spawning bass

Spawning season is when bass fishing myths do the most damage. You hear hard rules repeated every spring—dates, temperatures, ...
For many bass fisheries across the country, the post-spawn is upon us. This means fish have made their beds, laid their eggs, and tiny little fry are beginning to hatch. The good news for anglers is ...
The U.S. Forest Service is trying to understand how fish spawning in streams around Lake Tahoe might be affected by climate change. This is a good year to see some of the impacts. Every year at this ...
Winter loosened its grip across much of Texas this week, triggering predictable behavioral changes among the state's million-plus freshwater anglers. A lot of them went fishing, and the ones who ...
Each spring, an immense breeding migration culminates in the northernmost portions of the Gulf of California at a reserve near the Colorado River delta. Synchronized with the tides two to five days ...
They glide through the water with the serenity of age. Some were born before World War I, others during the Great Depression.
The long tube wiggled and then violently wobbled, shaking as a salmon came blasting out the end and belly-flopped into the water. Still in its pilot phase, the cannon-type device, "o'fish'ally" known ...
HARTSEL — With the annual spawning run of rainbow trout up the Dream Stream about to begin, anglers face a question of ethics: Is fishing for the spawners acceptable, and if so, how much fishing ...
Salmon born in captivity become domesticated in as little as one generation, a new study finds, explaining why hatchery-born fish don't do as well as wild-born ones in Oregon rivers. Researchers ...
The entrance to the Fairmount Fish Way (left) leads to a labyrinth of chambers that allow fish to ascend gradually. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks) Fishermen try their luck in the Schuylkill near the ...