It’s hot as hell. You’re sweaty and thirsty and hungry and now you have to tie on a new hook. You can’t tie the hook because you can’t see and your readers are over there between the cooler and bait ...

Learn how to safely remove a fishhook from your skin using two proven techniques: the jerk method and the push-through method ...

The first step in carp fishing is using the correct hook. This may seem like a simple task that requires no thought, but in fact there are many variables in fishing hooks. Choosing the right hook for ...

Washington officials have had an itch for years to shift to barbless hooks for salmon and steelhead sport fishing in the Columbia River. It’s been proposed — then postponed because Oregon was not on ...

Bill Tweit, a special assistant for the Washington Fish and Wildlife program at Olympia, said in making the change commissioners cited studies that show little or no survival benefit associated with ...

Oregon anglers and hunters will ring out a lot of old Monday evening and plenty of new Tuesday morning when they awaken to an array of new regulations. Major changes for 2013 are weighted to fishing, ...