The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation announced Tuesday that one of the biggest flathead catfish ever recorded in the state had been caught on a trotline. In the accompanying photo, ...

Daniel Rogers is president of the West Tennessee Canoe & Kayak Club and an ACA-certified Level 2 kayaking instructor. I am a lifelong fisherman and hunter. I was taught from childhood to respect ...

Here’s a question that may stump even the most experienced angler? How did trotlines get their name? How the term “trotline” became the name for this well-known stationary fishing device, which ...

ERWIN, Tenn. (WJHL) — A trotline is a fishing line with baited hooks used to catch multiple fish at once. It also happens to be at the center of a controversy in Unicoi County. On Memorial Day weekend ...

A fisherman caught a flathead catfish weighing a whopping 95 pounds in southeast Oklahoma, setting a record for the largest flathead ever caught in the lake, wildlife officials announced last week.

UNICOI COUNTY, Tenn. (WJHL) — The American Canoe Association (ACA) in Tennessee is calling on the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) and state legislators to update trotline regulations for ...

A Missouri fisherman caught a record-breaking walleye with a trotline, which is a "dying art" in fishing. Tim Stillings caught the fish on May 16 in the Sac River, in the southwest of the state. The ...

Fishing was excellent this past Friday morning as young and handsome "Raoul" (neither his real name nor an honest physical description) worked lures around the edges of the old slough and regularly ...

Dan Sturdivant told the news station he originally thought it was a tree log floating in the water. Officials later determined the snapping turtle was potentially older than the lake itself. Lake ...

I am the safety editor of the American Whitewater Journal and the manager of the AW Accident Database. I have been teaching and writing on this topic since 1975. The recent near miss on the lower ...

I am a lifelong fisherman and hunter. I was taught from childhood to respect nature and to ensure that my actions do not endanger other sportsmen. I will never forget my Daddy passing up a chance to ...