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Dodging the Taxman: Keep Your Catch Clear of Sharks, 'Cudas, Pike, and More
Christopher Bancroft
Oct 20, 2021
Line is peeling off the reel, but with one last violent pull, the fight dies out. A lifeless weight ensues, and what remains on the hook is merely stolen and shredded dreams. The taxman strikes again. Ernest Hemingway had his ways of dealing with sharks, included a Tommy Gun for a couple well-placed...
Christopher Bancroft
Oct 20, 2021
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Video: Giant Halibut Charges Spearfisherman
Sam Lungren
Aug 30, 2021
The line between hunter and hunted has always been blurry at best in the 49th state. Every year people get mauled by brown bears, harassed by black bears, encircled by wolves, or stomped by moose. Turns out even the fish are willing to go on the offensive. On Aug. 21, Chris Pollack and four friends...
Sam Lungren
Aug 30, 2021
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How to Catch Speckled Sea Trout
Taylor Garcia
Aug 10, 2021
Silver flank, purple hues, black spots, an opalescent flash beneath the water. There's no mistaking one of the most popular inshore sportfish along the East and Southeast coast: the speckled sea trout. While specks are great fun to catch, their highest value might be their oh-so-tasty white, flakey...
Taylor Garcia
Aug 10, 2021
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Topwater Tuna: Enthralling, Exhausting, Delicious
Pete Robbins
Aug 3, 2021
Here is the very epitome of a first-world problem: I cannot find a type of fishing that I do not enjoy. Of course I like some better than others, and will not be exceptionally disappointed if I never go ice fishing or lob giant hunks of plastic for muskies again. Despite the fact that just about any...
Pete Robbins
Aug 3, 2021
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9 Difficult People You Meet at Fishing Lodges
Pete Robbins
Jul 21, 2021
I’ve been fortunate enough to spend more than my fair share of time with fishing outfitters and guides at camps, lodges, and destinations around the world. But, once I'm there, many times I've felt trapped with people I’ve never met before, with whom I have little in common except our choices of...
Pete Robbins
Jul 21, 2021
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Spearfisherman Survives Bloody Battle with Great White
Katie Hill
Jul 6, 2021
Warning this article contains graphic images. Hunting and fishing often come with the lurking threat of a predator encounter. Many hunters might argue that the thrill of a secondary position on the food chain supplements the thrill of chase, and some of the wildest hunting stories have nothing to do...
Katie Hill
Jul 6, 2021
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Video: Giant Hammerhead Attacks Angler’s Tarpon
Sam Lungren
Jun 25, 2021
Relatively few experiences in the outdoors quite measure up to heart-pounding, tightline combat with an angry adult tarpon. One scenario that could surpass that fervor? Getting a big tarpon next to the boat with a huge hammerhead in hot pursuit. “We were in the Tobacco Caye Channel and hooked the...
Sam Lungren
Jun 25, 2021
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How to Catch Redfish with Jigs
Taylor Garcia
Jun 16, 2021
Much like spot-and-stalk hunting, sight casting to redfish in skinny water is equal parts electrifying and frustrating. Reds are the bully of Gulf Coast inshore fishing: they’re quick, meticulous, and aggressive, which is why many anglers treasure this species. The rush of seeing a red tailing...
Taylor Garcia
Jun 16, 2021
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Lobster Diver Survives Being Swallowed by Whale
Maggie Hudlow
Jun 14, 2021
This article comes from the Bent Fishing Podcast’s “Fish News” segment, where hosts Joe Cermele and Miles Nolte go head-to-head to find and report the most interesting and amusing fishy stories across sources far and wide—from respected scientific journals to trashy tabloids. Friday, June 11 started...
Maggie Hudlow
Jun 14, 2021
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What’s the World’s Most Difficult Sportfish?
Sam Lungren
May 5, 2021
Muskie are the fish of ten thousand casts—or is that steelhead? Nothing really runs and jumps and straight-up brawls like a tarpon. Marlin are undoubtedly the marquee, among the largest and fastest, rare, unbelievably powerful, enigmatic. I’m sure we have ol’ Ernie Hemingway to thank for that...
Sam Lungren
May 5, 2021
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A Biologist and a Commercial Fisherman Review 'Seaspiracy' Documentary
Sam Lungren
Apr 27, 2021
About one minute into the recent high-profile docu-drama “Seaspiracy,” the director and host Ali Tabrizi hits us with a motion graphic of a whale taking a watery excretion along with the following statement: “When dolphins and whales return to the surface to breathe, they fertilize tiny marine...
Sam Lungren
Apr 27, 2021
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