TPWD does not know how many catfish are caught each year by trotlines on Lake Sam Rayburn. Given the amount of gear observed, we assume that the harvest is likely much greater than what we see taken ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Lake Trotlines and bank poles are popular on the big river. Check the Iowa DNR fishing regulations for special trotline rules. Manawa State Park in Council Bluffs and Chris Lawson Park in Sioux City ...

Like most fishermen I like to use skill in my fishing, trying new techniques to outwit finned prey. But sometimes I don't feel like working for my catch, just loafing along shore watching redwing ...

Just finished your editorial on trotline fishing in Tennessee. I have been kayaking the lakes and rivers in this area for 15 years and have several times been hooked by trotlines, and I have cut ...

A 13-year-old boy is now in Missouri's fish-record book after catching the first state-record yellow perch using a trotline. Isaac Bohm, of Huntsville, pulled in the fish at a private pond in Randolph ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHOCTAW COUNTY, Okla. (KFOR) – A flathead ...

While the popularity of fishing for smallmouth bass is on the rise in Virginia’s New River, the decades-old practice of fishing for catfish using trotlines is fading. It’s not that New River catfish ...

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 ...

ERWIN, Tenn. — After a kayak student was entangled in a trotline, a top kayak safety instructor cut the line to prevent injuries to other paddlers floating down the Nolichucky River over Memorial ...