If you have listened to the show for very long then you have surely heard me say that mandatory lost net reporting is long overdue. Well ladies and gentlmen we now have a chance to make it right. Let me introduce House Bill 1717, this bill would amend RCW 77.12.870. The RCW as it is…
I still can’t believe I did it. I left a wide open tuna bite to go find some other fish. That’s how good the fishing was with Capt Ted Lund in Key West, Florida. My wife, Sonya, has been wanting to get down to Key West during one of our trips to Florida but time…
TOKYO (Reuters Life!) – A bluefin tuna, prized by sushi aficionados as a high-end treat, sold on Wednesday for a record price of nearly $400,000 in the year's first auction at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market. With the ringing of bells well before dawn, an auctioneer launched into a rapid chant as rubber-boot wearing men signaled…
One of my favorite hours of the the show since we began almost two years ago was last Saturday. We began by just telling a few fishing stories, sharing our favorite moments from 2010. Some were of a big fish, some were stories of checking off a bucket list fish, and some were of special moments shared…
This past weekends Department of Fish and Wildlife Commission meetings yielded some positive results and well, some things that aren't so good. There was also some comic relief from the commercial fishing industry as one bottom dragger claimed that bottom "destroyers" are actually heroes because they "clean" the bottom of Puget Sound. There was also…
By BEAR HOLMES. Frank Eshpeter, South King County PSA chapter President, always gives me the opportunity to provide a short update to the membership on the progress of CCA’s artificial reef proposal or some other rockfish related topic at our monthly meetings. This month I asked how many of the audience members were familiar with…
As many of you may have heard, the state is proposing license fee increases for hunting and fishing in Washington. First of all, I hate calling these things fees, let's call them what they are, TAXES. That being said, they are a user tax and if there is any tax I can live with then it…
Alexandria, VA – November 4, 2010 – The sportfishing community commends the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson for its decision to reject a sweeping petition to ban lead in all fishing tackle. The petition, which was submitted on August 3, 2010, by the Center for Biological Diversity and four other groups,…
"It's so nice to have a fish and wildlife director that actually fishes and understands the issues from a recreational anglers perspective" was Nelly's reaction when I told him about the WDFW recreational albacore meeting Tuesday in Olympia. In 2009 there was a request that WDFW consider a bag limit for all food fish that didn't already…
As I look back over the last year of fishing, I have quite a few fond memories. I am thinking of my daughter Mia's and son Mason's first billfish, my big cuberra snapper in Panama, and watching my son Madden catch the tuna bug as bad as his dad and brother Mason have. Bass fishing has…