For 162 million years, sturgeons have fended off everything they’ve faced. Now scientists are racing to save these living fossils. The white sturgeon is the largest freshwater fish in North America; ...

Sturgeon, and sturgeon fishing, is having a resurgence in southern Minnesota. That includes what should be a state catch-and-release record shovelnose sturgeon, caught on Oct. 24. Trish Johnson of ...

A prehistoric visitor, a sturgeon fish, washed ashore on Hilton Head on Nov. 19, baffling beach goers around Islanders Beach Club. Photographed by John Billings, vacationer from Tennessee. Courtesy of ...

Fishing report compiled by California Outdoors Hall of Fame member Dave Hurley and edited by Roger George, who guides in the greater Fresno area and holds the striper record at Millerton Lake. Delta ...

CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The first of its kind Switchblade lure launches today, giving anglers the ability to switch it up and adapt the lure’s color in seconds, with no downtime and no ...

PORTLAND — Sturgeon fishing will not open as usual on Jan. 1, 2026, for the Bonneville and The Dalles pools on the Columbia River. Fishery managers in Oregon and Washington decided during a hearing on ...

Axel Veerkamp, 14, of Placerville with a 38-pound, 46-inch salmon he caught trolling near Stinson Beach with Captain Trent Slate of Bite Me Charters. COURTESY PHOTO TRENT SLATE Fishing report compiled ...

Most days, researcher Stefan Tucker, with trawls, trammel nets, trot lines and even electrofishing gear, is on his boat looking for sturgeon in the Rock River. The nearly 300-mile waterway winds ...

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Tip of the week: With sturgeon fishing now open on Lake Roosevelt, anglers should know that sturgeon fishing while anchored is not the same as salmon fishing while anchored. Salmon will eventually ...

Fisheries officials are planning surveys in the upper portion of Lake Roosevelt in the coming weeks to check on the waterbody’s young white sturgeon. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, ...

Researchers from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife have spent the last few weeks out on the San Francisco Bay and Delta studying a species of prehistoric fish that has survived for ...