On July 9, 1983, Joey Pallotta of Crockett, California caught the world record white sturgeon weighing 468 pounds while fishing from his boat in San Pablo Bay in Contra Costa County. His epic catch ...

The largest freshwater fish in North America, which was once abundant in California’s major rivers and San Francisco Bay, has declined in numbers to a point that state officials will consider whether ...

Michigan's shortest fishing season was back in 2025, but only for 17 minutes. The 2025 lake sturgeon fishing season on Black Lake in Cheboygan and Presque Isle counties began at 8 a.m. Saturday and ...

The Ilwaco Charter Association wants to increase the minimum-size limit on sturgeon to 41 inches throughout the lower Columbia and lower Willamette rivers, plus in Washington and Oregon estuaries.

PRAIRIE DU SAC, Wis. — Some of the most exciting, most unusual outdoors pursuits have already begun, including sturgeon fishing and ginseng digging. Many other activities begin Saturday when turkey, ...