Georgia DNR says Daniels, who was actually targeting catfish at the time, was surprised when his shrimp-baited line yielded ...

Catch more spring walleyes in rivers with proven tips on gear, spots, and tactics. Learn where to fish and how to target spawning runs like a pro.

Mussels are fascinating because of their life histories, carried out on river bottoms ... and empty shells serve as nesting sites for small fish like darters. Unfortunately, for all their allure, ...

Originating from the Amazon River, these fish are social and prefer ... The Harlequin Rasbora is a small freshwater fish with a distinctive black triangular patch on its orange-red body.

As the summer months approach, dreams of small stream trout fishing resurface. In most parts of the country, alpine streams won’t even be reachable until May or ...

The small freshwater fish lives in the Pecos River Basin of New Mexico and Texas. Conservationists petitioned in 2007 for protection for the Pecos pupfish. But it took a 2020 lawsuit for the Service ...

These freshwater giants have greenish ... catches and the closure of fisheries, as the fish only remained in the Great Lakes, and only in small numbers. In addition to overfishing, the highly ...

The discovery is the first fossil of a freshwater smelt — a small, silvery fish — in the group Osmeriformes to have been discovered in Australia and will help scientists determine when these fish ...

To attract fish, mussels have developed very ornate lures that resemble small prey fish ... mussel now has a very small population in the river. Federally Listed Endangered Species Six species of ...

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide would lack their prime source of protein without freshwater fish. Yet the lakes ...