Esox Fishing Rods

They are terrific fighters, mighty tasty and known by many names - Red Drum, Puppy Drum, Bull Red, Redfish, Channel Bass, Spot Tail Bass or even Spot Tail Croakers.

Cape Coral resident Eugene Marconi, 55, headed out to his dock Monday morning to get an early start on a day of fishing, but found his boat and $1,250 worth of fishing gear was missing, a police report said.

If my memory serves me correctly -- a rarity even on the best of days -- the last one of these looks back was about three weeks ago when I told you about how I pretty much had to entertain myself during my pre-teen and teen years, simply because there weren't a whole lot of kids my age to play with.

Ron Barber, operations manager of Bass Pro Shops in Auburn, presents Mark Hettler of Friends of Carpenter's Brook Fish Hatchery with a check for $11,000 on Aug.

Pete Della Ratta, 36, will help out anybody who needs anything. 'I don't like to say no,' he said.

Last update: August 24, 2010 - 10:32 AM We live in a society where ESPN devotes an hour of prime time programming to the announcement of where one NBA player has decided to take his game after leaving Cleveland.

MONSTER CATCH: Phil Prosie with a Pacific bluefin tuna caught almost two years to the day after it was first tagged.

Capt. Ed and the Full Pull crew had a great day. They came home with some BFT, a nice Wahoo and some nice Snowies.

I got a call from an old college friend the other day. Jeff wanted me to know that he had almost been hooked by a con artist.

A couple weeks ago, my father and I took a ride up to one of his favorite fishing holes near Crivitz.

FENWICK ISLAND -- When Mio Fratello Italian Steakhouse co-owner Angela Keith discovered she had won the top prize of the Capt.

The other day when my buddy Brian called to ask me if I had ever fished a particular pond about a half-hour from my home, I had to admit that I hadn't. In the last 40 years I've probably driven by there a thousand times and each time I find myself staring out at the water and wonder just how good the fishing is there.

SOLDIERS from the Personnel Recovery Centre in Edinburgh who recently returned from action in Afghanistan enjoyed a week of salmon fishing on the River Tweed recently, along with service veterans from Erskine Hospital.

In case it passed you by in the recent, just cleared, political blizzard, there's been a shift in our domestic environmental battlefronts, to the sea.

Americans who enjoy fishing, hunting and other recreational activities on public lands and water are under attack by the Natural Resources Defense Council and its allies.

Catfish are biting despite the oppressive heat Story date: Aug. 22, 2010 By Joey Fisher Fisher's Fish Tales For the last three weeks, every time I cross the Arkansas River bridge, Ia m amazed at the number of fishermen on the water below the dam, which is always a good indication that the catfish are cooperating.

The big news this week on this side of the town is the weakfish that have moved in.

A MAN is seriously ill in hospital after running back into his burning house to retrieve his trousers.

At my age, you would think I would know better. I guess I don't. Let me explain.

This week, my family and I were invited to a friend's cottage on a small private lake an hour north of Peterborough ; a lake that is teeming with largemouth bass.