Elwha Steelhead Get Helping Hand
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By Mark Yuasa, Seattle Times  Sep. 24--Native steelhead in the Elwha River are being closely monitored to ensure they stay out of harm's way when two fish-blocking dams are torn down in 2009.
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By David Carrick  The recent heavy rains have been welcomed by North East rods as the refreshed River Tyne has provided sport on the Bywell Syndicate beat.
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By Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jun. 25--DICKINSON, N.D. -- We hadn't even hit the water, and already, this was turning into a memorable fishing trip -- in the very best sense of the word.
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By Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press  Mar. 11--To keep ducks and people happy, nature needs help these days.   Dedicated to giving that help, and drumming up more from others, is Jimmy Flynn, 38, of Troy.
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By BOB RIEPENHOFF  Phelps  We were drifting our boat just outside a big rock bar on North Twin Lake, bouncing fathead minnows off the bottom, when the first walleye hit.  It was one of those sneaky, light hits that make you wonder whether the jig just bumped a rock.
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By The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 19--Members of the Old Pueblo chapter of Trout Unlimited, employees of Tight Lines Flyfishing Inc.
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By Bob Lamb | Tribune Outdoors Editor, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Jun. 7--Tony Christnovich believes he knows why fishing success has been good, bad and ugly the past week or so.
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Our wet spring has given one nearby fishery at lift and started a second one moving in the right direction. "Sweet Briar is plum full," Paul Bailey, the south-central fisheries district supervisor for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, said Tuesday.
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ANGLERS on the Dee received a boost this week when 3,000 breamwere released into the river.   The fish had been shipped up to Farndon, near Wrexham, from the Environment Agency's fish farmat Calverton, Nottinghamshire.
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By Brent Frazee, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Mar. 4--COTTER, Ark. -- Donald Cranor's hopes of catching a big brown trout on the White River were rising almost as quickly as the water.
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A group of Western county commissioners who have problems with the Endangered Species Act has petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to have the northern snakehead, an Asian fish that's invaded the East, protected under the act.
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DALLAS _ In late May, Steven McBride of Yukon, Okla., caught a 114-pound paddlefish from northern Oklahoma's Arkansas River. The fish was in a stretch of river just below Kaw Lake.  When McBride hooked the fish, he thought it was a small one because it swam toward his boat.
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By Austin Fenner, Daily News, New York  Sep. 19--New York City's drinking water supply is being guarded  around-the-clock against toxic and biological weapons by an unlikely band of  sentinels -- the hardy bluegill fish.
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By Tom Meade  A coalition of state and federal agencies, academic institutions and conservation organizations is working to restore healthy, fishable populations of eastern brook trout throughout their eastern native range.
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By Chris De Benedetti  FREMONT -- Swimming upstream may get easier for local steelhead trout.
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By Jeri Krentz, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 24--Christian Wurtz steadies himself at the bow as his boat idles near a Lake Norman shore. There's a chill in the air; the gray sky looks smudged.   He chooses a spinning rod, already baited, and casts toward the riprap.
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Cities are using bluegills to safeguard municipal water supplies. The fish react immediately to toxins in the water, so if the aquatic denizens start to flap their gills while swimming in tanks replenished constantly with reservoir water, a warning e-mail is triggered.