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Conservation News

How good is Florida’s Kingsley Lake?

STARKE, Fla. – One of the best bass fisheries that you’ve probably never heard of is 2,000-acre Kingsley Lake in northeastern Florida. How good is it? During 2015, five of...

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Tournament stocking Arkansas River

PINE BLUFF, Ark. – Along with competing for a $50,000 prize, participants in Arkansas’ largest amateur fishing tournament also helped once again to enhance the bass population on the Arkansas...

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Minnesota Nation raising funds for Mille Lacs smallmouth

Minneapolis, Minn.—The Minnesota B.A.S.S. Nation has started a fund-raising effort to promote catch and release of smallmouth bass at Mille Lacs. Last December the Minnesota Nation started discussions with the...

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Mauries is new Colorado conservation director

AURORA, Colo. — George Mauries has taken over the role of conservation director for the Colorado B.A.S.S. Nation. He replaces longtime conservation director Todd Gentzel, who is moving out of...

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Northwest no limits controversy update

RICHLAND, Wash. – An early May creel report from Washington’s Yakima River, a tributary of the Columbia, has bass anglers irate and fearful that it indicates widespread carnage occurred during the...

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Duke Energy habitat grants

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Now is the time for nonprofit groups and qualifying government agencies to apply for a portion of the $1.46 million that Duke Energy is offering in grants...

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Hydrilla control plan proposed for Thurmond Lake

SAVANNAH, Ga. – Anglers have until noon on May 31 to comment about a controversial U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposal to diminish hydrilla coverage at J. Strom Thurmond Lake...

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Wyoming Flaming Gorge bass restrictions

CHEYENNE, Wyoming — The Wyoming B.A.S.S. Nation (WBN) is encouraging support for a regulation that likely will eliminate weigh-tournaments on the Wyoming portion of Flaming Gorge for at least a...

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Australians study habitat in U.S. bass fisheries

HIGH POINT, N.C. – B.A.S. S. Nation Conservation Director (CD) for North Carolina, Bill Frazier, recently assisted a team of Australia fisheries scientists in its research of the hows and...

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