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December 16, 2011
by Eerie news this week about … Lake Erie.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources reports that Lake Erie’s toxic algae blooms are at the worst levels in history and that fish and billions of dollars in tourism revenues are at risk. Blue-green algae, or cyanobacteria, is common in the lake but record rainfall in the past year has washed unprecedented amounts of farm fertilizer, manure and sewage into the water causing substantial growth and expansion of algae blooms. Blue-green algae excrete liver and nerve toxins that can kill pets, wipe out fish populations, and sicken humans.
[ Read Full Post ]December 8, 2011
by So Outdoor Life is part of a cool contest operated by Crown Royal, sponsor of Field & Stream’s Hook Shots show and maker of the whiskey that comes in a purple bag. The contest is called “Pass the Crown,” and it’s a variation on the Secret Santa gift exchange anyone who’s ever worked in an office is familiar with. Are you lucky enough to have never worked in an office? Then here’s how this works:
[ Read Full Post ]October 31, 2011
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It’s an episode of The Simpsons come to life.
Last week Julian Zmutt caught a three-eyed fish reminiscent of Blinky the fish from a 1990 episode of The Simpsons entitled "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish." That long ago episode focused on Bart catching the unusual fish downstream from the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.
In a scary coincidence, Zmutt landed his freaky mutation in an Argentinian lake where hot water from a nearby nuclear facility is pumped reports treehugger.com. Zmutt told media outlets that he didn’t notice the fish’s third eye until well after catching it. “As it was dark at that time we did not notice,” Zmutt said. “But then you looked at him with a flashlight and saw that he had a third eye.”
[ Read Full Post ]October 20, 2011
by The federal government has recently been making a push to better protect the Great Lakes from a number of invasive species. But a new bill has some environmentalists concerned that protective measures could be all for nothing, according to The Kansas City Star and other news outlets. The implications could affect sportsmen in a major way.
The proposed House bill, called the Commercial Vessel Discharge Reform Act of 2011, is gaining steam among politicians. It would essentially lessen a state's power to regulate Great Lakes waters by exempting ballast water from the Clean Water Act. Problem is, ballast water—which is the water that is stored in the hulls of ships during maritime travels—is where most invasive species hitch rides.
[ Read Full Post ]October 11, 2011
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When golfers at Carbrook Golf Club in Brisbane, Australia hit a ball into the water hazard at the 14th tee they leave it be. They don’t even attempt to retrieve it. That's because the lake on the golf course contains six rather large bull sharks. The sharks came to the lake during a bad flood a few years ago and have been stranded there ever since. But life in the lake has been good for the sharks.
[ Read Full Post ]August 24, 2011
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Just weeks after the striped bass world record was broken (unofficially), another striper record has bitten the dust (officially). In June, Bruce Cunningham, 30, landed this massive 60-pound 8-ounce striper on Missouri's Bull Shoals Lake, according to MDC News. Yesterday, the catch was approved as a state record by the Missouri Department of Conservation. The fish measured 47 inches in length and had a 36-inch girth.
Cunningham was out with his brothers on his first striper trip and was casting a large plastic minnow in about 40 feet of water. Cunningham and his two brothers had already boated several other large fish (40 pounders) before the record-breaker hit.
[ Read Full Post ]August 6, 2011
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UPDATE: Field and Stream reported that the potential world-record striped bass was caught last week in Connecticut. The striper was boated by Greg Myerson and weighed in at 81.8 pounds, which edges out the previous record of 78.8 pounds caught in 1982 by Albert McReynolds.
[ Read Full Post ]August 3, 2011
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My home state of Texas was on fire a few months ago. Well, not the whole state; just a little over a million acres of it. Now that the flames are out, we’re contending with another problem – drought. How dry is it? Well, according to the National Drought Mitigation Center, 75 percent of the state is in "exceptional" drought. It’s so dry here in Texas that our lakes are weeping blood! OK, not actually “weeping blood” but some are turning blood red.
[ Read Full Post ]August 2, 2011
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Great Britain’s The Sun newspaper reports that last week Chris Grimmer (left) landed the largest albino catfish ever (the paper cleverly nicknamed the monster Fin Kong). He caught the freak fish on the River Ebro in Spain. Who knew there was such a category? Albino catfish? Really?
Grimmer’s spooky cat was 8 feet long and weighed 194 pounds. Grimmer told reporters that his 30-minute fight with the fish “was like trying to reel in a bus. I could hardly walk afterwards, but it was worth it."
[ Read Full Post ]July 28, 2011
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Carp anglers will no longer get a chance to chase The Fat Lady, one of Britain’s largest and most famous carp (that's right, famous carp). An angler found her body floating in the waters of the St. Ives Lakes.
The Fat Lady is a 30-year-old mirror carp that weighed 61 pounds, 6 ounces. An average mirror carp weighs about 10 pounds. Through the years she became a legend among British anglers, and to some, landing The Fat Lady became an obsession.
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