Cheney pays $220 for fishing license ticket

U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Lynne Cheney posted a $220 bond in Ninth Circuit Court in Teton County on Monday on a charge of making a false statement to procure a fishing license.

LINK (via:Jackson Hole News & Guide)

Putin Lands a Pike

Russian leader Vladimir Putin landed a pike weighing 21 kilos on a recent weekend trip to Siberia, in the latest outdoor stunt by the Russian strongman.

LINK (via: Courier Mail)

Deadliest Catch

A Dutch tourist fishing in eastern Germany reeled in an unusual catch this weekend -- a World War II-era Panzerfaust anti-tank shell.

LINK (via: Spiegel Online)

A Kitty Runs Through It

A mountain lion was caught on video fishing a trib of the Blackfoot.

LINK (via: The Missoulian)

Fishing The Line: Nighttime Satellite Imagery Illuminates Global Fishing Activity

Black Marble nighttime satellite imagery showing fishing vessel activity in the East China Sea.

So what can you see with nighttime imagery from space?  Well, the lights of cities and towns, of course.  And some other interesting things:  the flaring of natural gas in North Dakota, being treated as a waste product in the Bakken Shale oil-drilling and fracking boom there; flaring offshore too, in the Gulf of Mexico and other locations; fires burning vast areas in Siberia.

And the bright lights of fishing fleets operating around the world.

LINK (via: SkyTruth)

Sport angling runaway leader in B.C. fishing

British Columbia's recreational fishery is worth as much to the provincial economy as commercial fishing, aquaculture and fish processing combined, according to a new report from BC Stats.

LINK (via: The Vancouver Sun)