National Fishing

CENTRAL ARKANSAS:Lake Conway: Water is murky and high, and that everything was doing really good before all this rain. Bream are biting well on worms and crickets. Crappie are biting near cypress trees on minnows,

Billings, Mont. (AP) – A Louisiana man who recruited big game hunters to come to Montana, where they illegally hunted elk and deer, pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to violate a federal wildlife act. Anthony

Madison, Wis. (AP) – Wisconsin legislators have voted to end counter service at two dozen Department of Natural Resources field offices across the state. Residents would have to buy hunting and fishing licenses online or

Sullivan, N.H. (AP) – A Sullivan, N.H., man is recovering after his brother shot him in a hunting accident. The state fish and game department says 27-year-old Josh Lazzaro and his 29-year-old brother, Scott Lazzaro,

Bismarck, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s fisheries chief says Lake Sakakawea and Lake Oahe have gone from “rags to riches.” Greg Power says heavy spring runoff has led to a 28-foot rise in Lake Oahe

Pocatello, Idaho (AP) – The state is giving too many nonresident bowhunters a crack at bagging an elk in eastern Idaho, some Idaho hunters say. “I think residents should be given first priority,” Scott Roberts

Portland, Ore. (AP) – It’s open season again on northern pikeminnows, a voracious breed of fish that eats millions of young salmon and steelhead in the Columbia and Snake rivers. The pikeminnows have a price

Grand Rapids, Mich. (AP) – The economic downturn led to a drop last year in charter fishing trips originating in Michigan, and even fewer are expected in 2009, officials said. “The number of charter excursions