Fish with Abs

An international team of scientists has found 380-million-year-old fossilised fish with abdominal muscles, in the remote Kimberley region.

LINK (via: Radio Australia)

All "fishing" is done by snagging

Doesn't that technically make it just snagging?

LINK (via: Missoulian)

Good News for Bonefish and Tarpon

The Culture of Jig Fishing -

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted 4-3 to move forward with new rules that would change the definition of snagging as it relates to tarpon and would limit a specific type of fishing gear in Boca Grande Pass.

LINK (via: Save the Tarpon)

The ever lovable PTTS did not take kindly to the proposed new rule at the hearing.

An attorney representing the PTTS threatened legal action if commissioners went ahead with the gear ban.

In addition to the gear rule change the FWC also approved a new rule making bonefish and tarpon catch and release only fisheries.

LINK (via: Florida Sportsman - Who were against the tarpon jig ban.)

As dead as Dwight Howard's future with the Lakers

via: Outdoor Life

When a team loses its playoff series on TNT, the Inside the NBA crew memorializes the squad with a running bit called Gone Fishin.

Killer whale steals halibut

LINK (via:Grind TV)

Native Rio Grande cutthroat trout rescued

Fisheries biologists with the Department of Game and Fish and the Santa Fe National Forest removed 49 Rio Grande cutthroat trout from a small creek threatened by the Tres Lagunas wildfire, ensuring the pure strain of native fish will survive if the fire threatens its watershed.

LINK (via: Outdoor News Daily)