May 13—Now that it is approaching mid-May, lakes and ponds will begin to warm up and fish will begin to spawn. Spawning involves the building of a circular nest in the mud or sand, having the female ...

The dredging of Jackson Pond, a 2-acre body of water in Columbia?s Long Reach Village, has been postponed until at least mid-June and could cost more money than anticipated. “You never like a ...

Lake Raven, like namesake Sam Houston, has a well-earned reputation that has generated considerable admiration and a steady stream of fans. The 200-acre reservoir in Huntsville State Park that bears ...

Deliberately reducing pond water levels during winter can provide benefits in aquatic weed, fishery and shoreline management in certain situations, according to Scott Jones, small impoundment ...

During May on Ross Barnett Reservoir, it's all about the spawn. Some species of fish are at the end of their mating season, some are spawning now and others are just beginning to bed. According to ...

Standing next to “Colossal,” one of the beaver dams in the Dredge Lakes area, it’s not hard to imagine how difficult it is for coho salmon to traverse. The dam barricades off all but a narrow strip of ...

For more than a century, a small dam in Mill Neck has blocked river herring returning from Long Island Sound to reproduce in freshwater wetlands. A fish passage that opened on Aug. 30 allows the ...

FOREST HILL, LA (WAFB) - While most people are picking up flowers and making last minute dinner reservations on Valentine’s Day, the state’s most successful matchmaker is hard at work to make magic ...

BASALT ” For the first time since whirling disease decimated most naturally reproducing rainbow trout populations in Colorado more than a decade ago, a new strain of the sport fish has reproduced ...

When our iced-over waters thaw in early spring, it's time for yellow perch to spawn. They do so in large schools at night over shallow weed beds, triggered by rising water temperatures that approach ...