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The biggest myths about spawning bass

Spawning season is when bass fishing myths do the most damage. You hear hard rules repeated every spring—dates, temperatures, ...
In Alabama, the pollen is thick on the truck, the buttercups are popping out of the ground, and the dogwoods are about to bloom—all indicators that bass should be heading onto beds soon. The same can ...
After early spring weather that has caused bass to spawn sporadically, more are moving into a post-spawn cycle and should become active feeders soon. If you think the early spring weather has been ...
Every autumn as the leaves drop and the temperature falls, we start to notice the annual spawning behavior of brown trout. Browns spawn in fall, and rainbows in late winter to early spring. During ...
Each spring, an immense breeding migration culminates in the northernmost portions of the Gulf of California at a reserve near the Colorado River delta. Synchronized with the tides two to five days ...
Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. With the low morning sun just beginning to melt the frost off the grass and willows, Travis ...
It’s not easy to catch bonefish. Wary of humans, these silvery fish—nicknamed grey ghosts—blend into the sandy flats where they forage and are quick to dart away. Several species of the fish are found ...
Salmon born in captivity become domesticated in as little as one generation, a new study finds, explaining why hatchery-born fish don't do as well as wild-born ones in Oregon rivers. Researchers ...
Animal biologists and chemists have identified the pheromone involved in the mechanism that triggers puffer fish to spawn on beaches using moonlight. A group of animal biologists and chemists at the ...
The alewife spawning season that begins this month across Long Island will be helped by several fish passages constructed over the past two years to provide the feeder fish access to spawning waters ...