Moldy Trout

Outfitters Jeremy Kehrein and Casey Hackathorn found this “Moldy Trout" on the Bitterroot while chasing skwalas in March.

Seen some funky trout in our day, but not with this much funktification.

Salmon begin long journey back to Yakima Basin

After an absence of about 115 years, sockeye salmon, also known as blue back, are once again in Lake Cle Elum, northwest of Ellensburg.

Plans call for planting adult sockeye in Lake Cle Elum for another 18 years to develop a self-sustaining run.

LINK (Via: The Yakima Herald)

Is This The New World-Record Largemouth?

A Japanese angler, fishing at Lake Biwa in the Shiga Prefecture of Japan may have tied freshwater fishing's oldest and most cherished record. 

LINK (Via: Field and Stream)

Targeting Trophy Koi

Thieves have developed a new technique for pursuing trophy Koi, can John Montana be far behind?

LINK  (Via:The Telegraph)

Fishing for monster Nile perch

Henry Gilbey goes fishing for Nile perch below Murchison Falls in Uganda.

But there is a fish that lives here, a fish that grows to such large proportions that actually the mind slightly boggles at how such bulk enables a fish to inhabit conditions so treacherous. But the Nile perch is nothing if not resilient, with huge glowing eyes that surely must have extra special capabilities for seeing all manner of sorry prey, and such muscled flanks that serve to give the intrepid angler a gloriously torrid time.

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The bid to corner world's bluefin tuna market

Japan's sprawling Mitsubishi conglomerate has cornered a 40 per cent share of the world market in bluefin tuna, one of the world's most endangered fish.

In the documentary film The End of the Line, Roberto Mielgo, a former bluefin fisherman who travels the world monitoring catches, claims that Mitsubishi buys and sells 60 per cent of the threatened fish and that it has expanded its freezer capacity to hold extra bluefin.

LINK (Via: The Indepemdent)

Holy mackerel: A breakthrough in tuna science?

LINK  (Via: The Global Post)