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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) approved a 70-day recreational red snapper season for Gulf state waters at the April 16 meeting in Tallahassee. Red snapper is a popular species that has a strong economic impact for many coastal communities throughout Florida. The 2015 season will start the Saturday before Memorial Day (May […]

For immediate release: April 7, 2015 Media contacts: Katie Purcell, 850-459-6585 (land issues), Amanda Nalley, 850-410-4943 (marine fisheries issues) The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) will meet April 14-16 in Tallahassee at Florida A&M University’s Alfred Lawson Jr. Multipurpose Center, 1800 Wahnish Way, Tallahassee, FL 32307. Attendees need to display a parking pass […]

Get outdoorsy with the new Guy Harvey hard-card license There’s something wonderful about having a shiny new card in your wallet. While paper licenses do their part, a plastic license that easily fits in among other cards has so many benefits. It doesn’t get accidentally tossed out with the receipts. It is waterproof. It doesn’t […]

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is sponsoring a free youth freshwater fishing derby at Tenoroc Fish Management Area and Youth Conservation Center in Lakeland on April 4, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. No fishing license is required on this particular weekend but participants must preregister for the derby. The FWC wants […]

*(Courtesy of The Fishing Wire)

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Burr Edde III of Malta Bend became Missouri’s most recent record-breaking angler when he landed a giant blue catfish on a stretch of the Missouri River in Saline County using a trotline. The new “alternative method” record blue catfish caught by Edde on March 21 weighed 120 pounds, 8 ounces, with a length of 55 and 1/8 inches and a girth of 45 inches. Edde used cut Asian carp as bait.