About a half-dozen smelt camps report fishing and business has been good so far this season after multiple rough years.

There are fish that people like to catch, and then there is the musky — a long, heavy, toothy, unpredictable apex predator that fuels obsessions, stories and lifelong pursuits. Renowned as the fish of ...

Central Maine students traded their typical classroom for Wesserunsett Lake on Friday, participating in an ice fishing event ...

Every outdoors itch won’t get scratched when it comes to Ohio winter wishes. Somebody was wondering last week on a public forum whether this month-old Ohio winter was going to end up a bust for ice ...

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Will the Black Lake lake sturgeon fishing season again set a time record in 2026? We'll find out Feb. 7 when the season begins — and most likely also end. The 2026 lake sturgeon fishing season on ...

Daniel Muenzberg caught a few trout using a size-16 dry fly on the Pecos River on Dec. 11. Del Clothier had a successful day at Ute Lake catching catfish and white bass using green blades on Dec. 10.

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Atlantic northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis) caught in the Gulf of Maine during the 2019 F/V Karen Elizabeth twin-trawl wingspread study. PHOTO / COURTESY NOAA FISHERIES, CALVIN ALEXANDER A moratorium ...

Maine's lakes and ponds are a treasured cultural and economic resource. And now for the first time, the state has issued online "scorecards" that show individual water bodies' environmental conditions ...