Posted in Fishing Reports on August 31st, 2005 Comments Off
Florida Fishing forecast
Saltwater: Beach and nearshore anglers anxiously await the annual fall migration of baitfish along the Space and Treasure coasts. Mullet, greenies and glass minnows make up the migration, which starts in late August and continues often until November. Following these baitfish will be all manner of predatorial species, such as snook, redfish, tarpon, [...]
Posted in Fishing Reports on August 31st, 2005 Comments Off
Huston Fishing Report USA - Fishing success was good over the weekend, with great surf fishing Saturday when northeast wind on the backside of Hurricane Katrina flattened the surf.
Anglers able to take advantage of the brief window (surf roughed Sunday) nailed good catches of speckled trout on mullet-imitation plugs and soft-plastic baits fished in the [...]
Posted in Fishing News on August 31st, 2005 Comments Off
Sockeye fishing may open on Fraser - VANCOUVER — Commercial fishermen may get a chance at the lucrative Fraser River sockeye salmon run after all.
The federal fisheries department is softening its stand on a total commercial fishing ban, just as fishermen were threatening a protest fishery.
The department’s Don Radford says the size of [...]
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Anglers welcome new fishing laws Western Australia
Western Australia’s peak recreational fishing body has welcomed new laws for the Kimberley and Pilbara, in the state’s north.
From January next year anglers will have to follow new bag and size limits.
The changes include a maximum size limit of a metre for all cod species, a bag limit drop [...]
Posted in Fishing News on August 30th, 2005 Comments Off
Amnesty allows fishing on Reef - A SECRET six-month amnesty on illegal recreational fishing in the Great Barrier Reef was tolerated by the authority charged with protecting the world heritage-listed icon.
The amnesty on amateur anglers resulted in more than half those caught fishing in the first 12 months of the Reef’s new “green zones” being [...]