Whether a caught fish is released back into the water or removed for consumption depends on more than just the fish species ...

A Tennessee angler caught the "fish of a lifetime" recently when he managed to reel in a rare bighead carp with an assumed rare genetic condition. Victor Siwik of Reagan, Tennessee, was on a fishing ...

This story originally published in September was judged to be Advocate Outdoors’ top story for 2025 by a panel of outdoors ...

An angler caught a fish in Missouri and soon realized just how rare and dangerous the predatory creature actually was. A Wayne County fisherman caught a Northern Snakehead fish on May 25 in the ...

An angler spotted something weird floating in Lake Huron in July. It turned out to be an enormous grass carp, one of the most invasive fish the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada has ever dealt ...

A Massachusetts man is under arrest after illegally catching and keeping a total of 14 oversized striped bass. Authorities had received tips about the angler not releasing catches from his boat while ...

A Texas angler has reeled in a potential world-record blue catfish. Ben Christensen, of Johnson City, caught the 31.55-pound river monster on Oct. 11 with a 4-weight fly rod, which he says is ...

ATHENS Nearly two years to the day after reeling in ShareLunker 641 from Lake Alan Henry, angler Ross Gomez caught a 14.78-pound bass only to discover it was the same fish. Gomez, of Post, caught the ...

A Kansas fisherman who had his state-record white crappie voided and “didn’t understand why,” now knows the reason his record fish was tossed out and the old record reinstated. After an investigation ...

A female angler has landed the biggest ever fish caught by a woman in Britain weighing more than a Great Dane after she stalked it for two days. Naomi Turner made a new British record when she caught ...

An angler from Pennsylvania almost ate a massive state record-breaking walleye fish he caught in the Youghiogheny River in Connellsville. Richard Nicholson, 62, was persuaded not to fillet the 34-inch ...

Sharks seem to be attacking fish on anglers’ lines more and more in. One scientist is out to figure out why, and how to stop ...