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21Sep

Keeping Wild Fish in an Aquarium: Which Natives Work and Which Don’t

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Keeping Wild Fish in an Aquarium: Which Natives Work and Which Don't Keeping wild fish in an aquarium looks simple from the bank. A four-inch bluegill is beautiful, free, and swimming ten feet away. Then it comes home, sulks on

21Sep

Blue Crab Season Across America: Timing, Limits and Local Rules

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Blue Crab Season Across America: Timing, Limits and Local Rules When is blue crab season? Ask ten crabbers and you'll get a few different answers, because there is no national opening day. Each coastal state sets its own dates, its

21Sep

Aquarium Cycling: How to Grow the Bacteria Before You Add Fish

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Aquarium Cycling: How to Grow the Bacteria Before You Add Fish Fish can't survive in a brand-new tank, and the reason isn't dirty water. Aquarium cycling is the work of growing two bacterial colonies that convert fish waste into compounds

20Sep

King Salmon Guide: Identifying and Catching Chinook Salmon in US Waters

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King Salmon Guide: Identifying and Catching Chinook Salmon in US Waters A big king grabs your lure in a Columbia River tidewater eddy and the next few minutes turn into a blur of drag and backing. Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)

20Sep

Pond Aeration Explained: Moving Oxygen Through the Whole Water Column

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Pond Aeration Explained: Moving Oxygen Through the Whole Water Column Walk most farm ponds in July and the fish look fine. By August, one still, muggy night can flip the same water into a kill zone. Pond aeration is the

12Sep

White Bass in natural underwater habitat

White Bass: Complete Guide to America’s Most Underrated Spring Fish

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White Bass: Complete Guide to America's Most Underrated Spring Fish Every spring, something remarkable happens in rivers and reservoirs across the middle of America: white bass push upstream by the thousands, and anglers who know the run catch fish until

12Sep

Striped Bass in natural underwater habitat

Striped Bass: Complete Guide to America’s Favorite Coastal Fighter

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Striped Bass: Complete Guide to America's Favorite Coastal Fighter Ask an East Coast angler to name the fish that defines their fall, and most will say it: striped bass. Known simply as "striper" to its devotees, this silver-and-black migration machine

11Sep

Chrome-bright steelhead in cold clear river water

Steelhead: Complete Guide to the Ocean-Run Rainbow Trout

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Steelhead: Complete Guide to the Ocean-Run Rainbow Trout Take a rainbow trout, send it to sea for a few years, and you get a steelhead — a chrome-plated, ocean-hardened athlete that returns to coastal rivers with the power of a

11Sep

Muskellunge in clear water among aquatic plants

Muskellunge: The Complete Guide to the Fish of 10,000 Casts

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Muskellunge: The Complete Guide to the Fish of 10,000 Casts There's a reason anglers call the muskellunge "the fish of 10,000 casts." This apex predator of northern waters is elusive, enormous, and notoriously hard to fool. But for the anglers

11Sep

Lake trout swimming in deep cold blue lake water

Lake Trout: Complete Guide to Lakers & Mackinaw

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Lake Trout: Complete Guide to Lakers & Mackinaw The lake trout is the biggest native char in North America — a deep-water predator that thrives in the coldest, cleanest lakes on the continent. Called "laker" or "mackinaw" by the anglers