Paddlefish aren't quite like most other fish species - they live for a long, long, long, long time. And when you manage paddlefish caught by anglers, you've got to be awfully careful in figuring out ...

Chad Williams (second from right) gets some help from family and friends to hold up the world-record paddlefish he caught in Missouri. Photograph courtesy Jason Smith Chad Williams of Olathe, Kansas, ...

Paddlefish season is set to kick off March 15, and there's a few things you should know before attempting to snag this prehistoric fish. Paddlefish, whose ancestors swam when dinosaurs walked the ...

An eight-person crew of bowfishermen taken an annual trip to Western Kentucky, and this June they were fishing from three boats. They were having a successful week targeting carp, gar, and paddlefish ...

It’s a rite of spring to go paddlefish snagging in Missouri and Oklahoma, at reservoirs such as Lake of the Ozarks, Truman, Table Rock and the Grand Lake O' the Cherokees. In the not-so-distant past, ...

Nathan “Shags” McLeod holds his paddlefish with Brandon Butler and guide Jason Smith. Submitted photo We have dinosaurs swimming in the Midwest. Paddlefish fossils date from 65-million years ago. They ...

May 11—BUFORD, N.D. — It wasn't the kind of day you'd choose to stand on a sandbar or riverbank and sling 5 ounces of lead and a big treble hook into the river for hours on end — kerplunk, kerplunk, ...