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Northeast
The best thing to do after a big party is go fishing. After the inauguration, anglers in Washington will probably be looking to wet a line this weekend and they need look no further than the Heritage Waterways in South Eastern, Pennsylvania. Griz at Urban Angler in Arlington told us that the best bet is to head to the warm spring-fed creeks around Boiling Springs, PA. The water coming out of the ground stays at 52 to 54 degrees all winter and the native trout gather to escape the cold. Griz recommends newbies fish Yellow Breeches creek. “It’s a good place to cut your teeth,” he says, explaining that the creek is close to the car and close to town.
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You’ve probably seen the television commercials for Southwest Airlines, where someone does something incredibly bone-headed, and the announcer asks, “Wanna get away?”
We figure that’s probably how Rusty Saunders of Fort Edward, N.Y. felt after he shot—and tagged—what he thought was an elk while hunting in Montana’s Paradise Valley last November.
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A once-prominent big game hunter and guide whose name and image appeared regularly in national hunting publications and advertisements for hunting rifles will never again hunt, fish or be allowed to own a firearm.
Once one of the country’s best-known hunting celebrities, the now-disgraced Kirt Darner, 69, was sentenced on Monday, Jan. 12, in Cibola County, New Mexico District Court to 4,500 hours of community service, fined $10,000 and ordered to pay an unspecified amount of restitution to the New Mexico and Colorado game agencies and a Colorado taxidermy business.
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Some of my friends in the conservation community are ecstatic over Obama's nominee to run NMFS, Jane Lubchenko, and his pledge to make protecting fisheries and habitats a priority. Others are worried that with a democratic majority in Congress, the "enviros" will lock recreational fishermen out. Since I've spent much of my career fighting for access and to protect Essential Fish Habitat on local, state, federal and international levels—often partnering with environmental groups--many have asked my opinion about recreational fishing access and opportunities over the next four years.
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Northeast
With the striped bass gone and blackfish season closed, New York anglers have been turning their attention to Cod. Joe Disalvo at Causeway Bait and Tackle reports that crews are finding limits of big cod on the wrecks and live bottom in 50 feet of water.
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Any knucklehead can cast a small spinning lure into an Opening Day pool of freshly stocked trout and catch a few fish. But if you want to catch more trout more consistently -- including some very big ones -- then it's time you got serious. [ Read Full Post ]
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