National Fishing

An ongoing effort to monitor state waters for aquatic nuisance species has not produced any significant discoveries this year.

Calling all want-to-be anglers! The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department’s “Let’s Go Fishing” Program is offering free one-day Introduction to Fishing classes in Cambridge and Wolfeboro, N.H., this August.

The Idaho Fish and Game Commission during a meeting Thursday, July 12, adopted a harvest season on fall Chinook salmon to open September 1.

Mark your calendars and get your registrations in now for the Governor’s Surf Fishing Tournament! This year’s tournament is scheduled for October 7 at Island Beach State Park and marks the 21st year of this

The boat access facility on Onway Lake in Raymond, N.H., will be closed for repairs for about six weeks, from July 23 through August 31, 2012.

Last year’s historic flooding conditions caused a slight decline in fishing license sales, but it didn’t keep anglers from wetting a line.

This report highlights a few of the best places to fish, what anglers are using and what they are catching. The information is compiled from regional Fish and Game fishery managers, local tackle shops and

BIG SANDWASH RESERVOIR: (July 23) Anglers report fair to good fishing for rainbows and bass. They are seeing some nice fish—both smallmouth and largemouth bass. Anglers are also catching some nice rainbow trout in deeper

BEAR LAKE: (July 20) Cutthroat trout fishing remains good for anglers who have been trolling in depths of 30–60 feet along the west side of the lake. The cutthroat trout spawning season is over, and