National Fishing

Pierre, S.D. (AP) – The South Dakota Tourism Office is enlisting the help of Mount Vernon native and NFL player Chad Greenway to promote fall pheasant hunting. In a release, the Tourism office says its

Pensacola Beach, Fla. (AP) – Kenneth Darga reeled in a 95-pound black drum from a ledge beneath a toll bridge last Christmas, catching the monster fish using a light action rod and 10-pound test line

Portland, Ore. (AP) – Three former governors of Oregon, Idaho and Washington are urging the Obama administration to reject a Bush-era plan to save the region’s salmon. In their Tuesday letter, John Kitzhaber of Oregon,

Tucson, Ariz. (AP) – The Arizona Game and Fish Department has ended a moratorium on shooting lions in the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge north of Yuma. The agency says the mountain lion population in Arizona

Lincoln, Neb. (AP) – Nebraska hunters wanting a shot at bringing down a bighorn sheep have until Aug. 7 to apply for the 2009 bighorn sheep hunting lottery. The lottery is open only to state

Bismarck, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s sage grouse hunting season will be closed for a second straight year because of low counts during a spring survey. The state Game and Fish Department says a record-low

Anchorage, Alaska (AP) – Yukon River smokehouses should be filled this summer with oil-rich strips of king salmon – long used by Alaska Natives as a high-energy food to get through the long Alaska winters.

Anchorage, Alaska (AP) – The Alaska Office of Special Prosecutions says a New Mexico man has been penalized nearly $20,000 and put on five years’ probation for multiple hunting violations. The Anchorage Daily News says

Madison, Wis. (AP) – Researchers in Madison are hoping to rid a northern Wisconsin lake of an invasive fish species by manually raising the water’s temperature. Scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison plan to stir