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An Arrow Runs Through It: Bowfishers take aim at Asian carp

Save for the lightning flashes of a distant thunderstorm, it is a pitch-black night on the Mississippi, a few miles downriver from Festus. A chorus of frogs and crickets drowns out the quiet hum of a small electric motor as Robin Parks navigates his boat in the still, shallow waters behind a dike.

Keith Riehn, Parks' full-time fishing buddy on the pair's Web broadcast hunting show Aim Low Bowfishing Journals, kneels on a platform at the boat's bow and hooks up a handheld spotlight. Parks kills the engine and they peer out into the darkness.

Riehn readies an arrow on the strings of his hunting bow while Parks picks up the spotlight and scans the river. The light reveals hundreds of iridescent fish floating near the surface. Picking out the biggest one, Parks douses the light to keep from spooking the creature and moves the craft to within ten feet of the target.

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Maine: Mapleton Youth Catches Record-Setting Arctic Charr

MAPLETON – The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife confirms that an 11-year-old young man from Mapleton has caught a record-setting Arctic Charr, breaking a 35-year-old record.

Carter McLaughlin, 11, of Mapleton, caught the charr on Aug. 20 at Pushineer Pond in T15 R9. According to IF&W Assistant Fisheries Biologist Frank Frost, who measured the fish, the record-setter was 25.4 inches in total length and weighed 5.24 pounds.

Sierra Club Against Palin

The Palin Doctrine
Anchorage -- A close examination of her record as governor reveals that Sarah Palin is nothing if not consistent. Policies that would be described as pork, waste, taxes, or welfare if they benefited all Americans cannot, by definition, be those awful things if they are for Alaskans.

NRA Warns Don't Believe Obama on Second Amendment

The presidential primary season is finally over, and it is now time for gun owners to take a careful look at just where apparent nominee Barack Obama stands on issues related to the Second Amendment. During the primaries, Obama tried to hide behind vague statements of support for “sportsmen” or unfounded claims of general support for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

Palin Now Being Called Wolf Killer

    Gov. Palin supports the use of aerial killing of overgrown populations of wolves in specific areas of Alaska that threaten other species, specifically the caribou and moose, needed for subsistence hunting by the natives.

Wisconsin considers legalization of wolf hunting to manage population

    Wolves may soon be caught in the crosshairs of Wisconsin hunters. Many Wisconsin citizens may find this surprising, as it has been illegal to hunt wolves for over 50 years due to their endangered status.

    Thomas Remington, manager of U.S. Hunting Today, a national hunting organization, said he believes hunting is one of the best tools for managing game populations.

    John Stabley, vice president of Global Operations of U.S. Hunting Today, said "wildlife management units" could be created as a possible compromise.

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