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California Has Temporarily Banned Salmon Fishing — Here’s Where to Go Instead

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Bad news for salmon anglers hoping to catch some Chinook in California this year: The golden state’s salmon season, which would have opened on April 1, is closed and will remain closed through May 15, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. This decision comes after the West coast region’s Chinook salmon population […]

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Rare Piranha-Like Fish Caught in South Carolina Lake

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A teenage angler in South Carolina was fishing for striped bass at his favorite lake, but he didn’t hook one. Instead, he pulled up something much more rare–and scary-looking: a South American pacu, an invasive cousin of the vicious freshwater carnivore, the piranha. An avid fisherman, Drew Patrick, 15, has been fishing at his family’s […]

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Motivational Moments Assignment Winner Katherine Plessner

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Congratulations to Katherine Plessner for winning the recent Motivational Moments Assignment with the image, “A Photographer’s Dream Location.” See more…

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9-Year-Old’s First Gobbler Is a Rare Albino Turkey

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A full-body mount of a white phase wild turkey.

That first turkey is special for any hunter, but 9-year-old Easton Colby’s story was one very few hunters could ever fathom: He began his turkey hunting career a few weeks ago with an albino gobbler. A resident of Collins, Missouri, Easton had been hunting the same property with his grandfather, Curtis, since he was only […]

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The Record-Shattering, 200-Inch Buck Shot That Sat Forgotten for Decades

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When you think about state hunting records being broken, you usually think about it being from this hunting season. You certainly don’t expect a record to be broken in 2022 by a buck taken down in 1968. But that’s exactly what happened when Pennsylvania announced last year a new state record typical whitetail deer from […]

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