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Tuna Fetches $273,000 At Annual Tokyo New Year’s Auction, Breaking Pandemic Slump
A 467lb bluefin tuna sold for $273,000 at Tokyo’s annual New Year’s tuna auction held on January 5, 2023 at the Toyosu fish market. While the winning bid is just a fraction of 2019’s record price of 410.92 million yen (US$3.1 million), it is more than double the top price at last year’s auction, breaking a pandemic trend of slumping demand.
Jungle Jeopardy
Back in November, all-around fishy dude Ryan Izquierdo wrote about his freshwater fishing adventure deep into the Columbian Jungle for Coastal Angler and The Angler magazine. Here is the first episode of his YouTube series on that awesome trip. He calls it “Jungle Jeopardy.”
Tactics For Tough DH Trout
Even in the depths of winter, there is trout action to be found on the many delayed harvest (DH) streams across the country where state agencies stock trout heavily under catch-and-release regulations.
What’s That Fish?
This ugly character is a goblin shark. Featured in the USFWS’s Fish of the Week Podcast, the goblin shark is a deepwater species rarely encountered by humans. They exist in the cold darkness of 800- to 3,000-foot depths, where they hunt other weird deep-sea denizens like anglerfish and dragonfish in all the world’s oceans. They grow to 20 feet in length.
How To Deep Drop For Mystic Grouper
Mystics are one of the lesser-known grouper species, simply because anglers don’t fish deep enough to target them. Like all grouper, they are excellent to eat and usually weigh from 15 to 50 pounds, although they can grow much larger.
Two State Records In A Day!
Marovich caught a 5.56-pound red porgy that bested a 2019 record of 4.8 pounds. He also boated a big 10.55-pound blueline tilefish that smashed the 2021 record of 5.4 pounds.
Cold Water Tactics For Any Fish
Wintertime might never offer the kind of incredible bites one might find in fall or spring, it is still possible to experience great fishing.
North Carolina Anglers Catch Record-Size 900-Pound Bluefin Tuna
The fish was weighed and tagged at Pelagic Hunter Fishing Center scales in Sneads Ferry.It was 111.5 inches long and weighed 720 pounds after the head and tail were removed.
45th Annual Bisbee’s Black and Blue Exceeds $7.4 Million, Top Three Teams All Win $1.5 Million-Plus in Prize Money
Magic Touch earned top honors with a 459-pound blue landed on the last day of fishing, backed by a 344-pound blue from Day Two. The combined team from Texas and Florida is taking home $2,440,850 for those fish, including first and fourth places and multiple daily jackpot prizes.Graham County’s Snowbird Creek Has It All
Snowbird Creek, and its main tributary Big Snowbird Creek, are places fly anglers could spend days exploring and still leave water untouched. On its top end, Big Snowbird is one of the largest remaining flows populated with native southern Appalachian brook trout. On its lower end, near its mouth at Lake Santeetlah, Snowbird plays host to an annual migration of lake-run rainbows that reach lengths well in excess of 20 inches.Under the Sea – Mentoring Young Guns
If all goes well, it will be a fun day, and they will always remember their first fish with pride. Photograph it; celebrate it; enjoy it. Check out some great tips here!Sarasota Police Officer Leaps into Action to Stop Unmanned Boat in Dramatic Rescue
The unmanned boat was cruising in circles up to 40 mph off the Gulf Coast in Sarasota.
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