Sometimes the fishing is tough, even for guys allowed to catch 'em with electricity or giant nets. Kevin Hopkins and Jon Stein use both in their work to keep tabs on the fish population at Beaver Lake ...

An experiment earlier this summer using hoop nets instead of trap nets to sample channel catfish along the U.S. portion of the Red River yielded results that exceeded even the most optimistic ...

Hundreds of turtles and fingerling-sized catfish were rescued at a South Texas Lake earlier this week. Texas Game Wardens discovered the animals trapped inside several illegal hoop nets. Illegal ...

JACKSONVILLE — Some commercial fishermen want the state to let them start netting fish again in the tidal rivers and creeks of Northeast Florida. They want a special permit to allow 11 commercial ...

If you want to go lobster hoop netting, you only have until Wednesday to do so before the season closes. Captain Dave Dodge reported that the lobster hoop netting inside Long Beach Harbor has been ...

The carbon fiber construction gives anglers the lightweight feel of a single-handed net with the added reach of a long-handled net. A bulletproof aluminum net, the Rising’s Brookie XL pairs an ...

JAMES RIVER - Splashed and speckled in mud, Dave Lucchesi jumped into action. He quickly stepped over the slow-moving James River, from one boat into another, to take control of the wheel as flathead ...