Outdoors: Shad plentiful, but not salmon

Shad fishing has been good on the Connecticut River and#8212; except after significant rains, when turbidity and debris flowing downstream have turned the action off almost entirely. Forty-fish days have been followed by shutouts. A good bet is to wait a few days after a substantial rain for the river to clear.

Fisherfolks sound alarm over knifefish invasion of Laguna lake

MANILA, May 18, 2012—Militant fisherfolk group, Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) and Save Laguna Lake Movement (SLLM) had sounded the alarm over the invasion of knifefishes in the Laguna de Bai, which endangers the livelihood of small fishermen there. read more

BRIEFLY: May 19

Read about what's happening in and around Plymouth.

Crawfish, shrimp: Catch your dinner if you can

"Put your bathing suit on and let's go catch us some crawfish."Usually Dad would gravitate to the beaches in Washington and we would look for oysters, clams and rock fish, but this time he pulled into a little park that had a creek running through it. I was...

Open Season: Bites aplenty around SouthCoast

Saltwater fishing is heating up with lots of schoolie stripers along inshore waters and in most of the area rivers and bays. There are good numbers of keepers in the 30- to 33-inch range in the Taunton River and the Westport River. Stripers are also...