Beach Trading Blog

Although his final day got off to a bad start even before he got to the lake, Chris Lane hooked 41lbs, 2oz over 3 days to win his second BASS tournament on Lake Okeechobee this week.
Seems his brother and fellow competitor, Bobby Lane, backed his boat trailer into Chris’ truck nearly ripping the driver’s door [...]

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Natsume has announced that their Reel Fishing: Angler’s Dream is set to launch for the Wii in May.
According to their website:
Reel Fishing: Angler’s Dream offers beautiful, picturesque fishing locales, from calm, tranquil lakes to the beaches of tropical paradises. You’ll feel like you’re really in nature as you listen to the gentle lapping of waves, [...]

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Alaska’s Inside Passage is cold and nutrient rich, providing a terrific habitat for salmon. Exploring by sea kayak leaves little room for rods and reels so why not try using a hand line?
Perfect for the small storage areas of a sea kayak, hand lines aren’t delicate and take up little room. Unlike rods and reels, [...]

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We recently told you about the rare albino dolphin spotted off the coast of Southern California, now we found a story about a rare albino catfish caught by a guy up in New York!
According to The Times Herald Record, Dale Gillis of Middletown reeled in the rarely seen fish which was completely white with [...]

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File this under the ‘you gotta be kidding me’ column…
A 3 yr old girl in North Carolina asked her grandfather to hold her Barbie fishing pole so she could go to the bathroom… in the few minutes she was gone he landed a state record breaking, 21 lb channel catfish on the toy rod!
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What a way to make a living – a 24 year old Californian just won $1 million bucks in a bass fishing tournament!
Michael Bennett just went fishing on Lake Murray and caught enough bass to become fishing’s newest millionaire — and the youngest champion in Forrest Wood Cup history.
You can read more here…

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Although modern kayak fishing has been around for years and historical evidence shows that it may even have been done over 4000 years ago, the sport is enjoying a boom of sorts.
Even as the number of traditional anglers is staying the same or dropping in some areas, the last decade has seen a dramatic growth [...]

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On her first cast of the day a women in Eureka, CA, landed a whopping 120lb halibut off the Northern California coast on Memorial Day.
At first she thought she was hooked on a rock but as her reel nearly spooled and her husband drove their boat in pursuit they knew she had hooked a lunker!
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P&G, in partnership with Berkley, will host a visit with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Charlotte on Saturday, April 26 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the Charlotte Convention Center in conjunction with the Wal-Mart FLW Tour National Guard Open on Lake Norman April 24-27.
Each participant will receive a T-shirt from P&G and a [...]

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Researchers examining Australian damselfish have found small fry with asymmetrical ear bones are less likely to make it back to their reef homes after a stint out at sea (research paper, press release). As warmer and more acidic oceans are likely to result from global warming, more fish are going to be swimming around lost.
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