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Fishing records are made to broken, but not all of them are so easy to crack. Youth anglers Trace Jansen of Buda, Cade Childress of Pickton and Jesse Roberson of

New Jersey 2020 Skillful Angler Program Winners This year marks the 38th anniversary of the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife’s Skillful Angler Program. For almost four decades the Division has been recognizing anglers who catch fish of “not quite record” size but large enough to have tested the angler’s skill and be worthy of recognition in each of the freshwater and marine species categories. The Skillful Angler Program is designed to supplement the New Jersey State Record Fis...

Job on the planet. >> every day gaylord and his competitors put ears to radios to learn exactly when and for how long theyre allowed to drop those nets. >> commercial fishing will open from 5:30 p.m. july 9th until 3:30 p.m. july 11th. >> its a schedule determined by alaska fish and wildlife folks a few miles inland. folks like monet, a biologist from florida more comfortable with sea turtles and saltwater. but she loves fish so much she signed up to sit in the tower alone and count them. >> las...

Have come north with bear like bridges. >> a lot of guys come up north and its a fish fight. >> like the 3f club. this is chris, used to work in finance and marketing. >> its one of the only jobs you can work three, four, five months maybe and take the rest of the year off and do whatever i want. >> thats the attitude that fills this wild, distant corner of america on the fourth of july. ♪ >> a fantastic day to people watch and a melting pot formed by fish. ♪

4th. theyre wild animals, you know. >> i guess last year they were saying people were almost ready to go home. >> people did go home and then they came. they pulled their boats out of the water. >> 32 footers are the biggest boats allowed to fish this bay. ♪ with no industrial traulers, means more fish for everyone including net setters like amy. she anchors her net on the bottom and makes multiple trips to empty it. shes the fourth generation of fish, following the dreams of her father who ca...

On the planet. to everyones great relief the king of fish has arrived. if youre a salmon, if youre a so sockeye salmon -- >> its a blad place to be righ now. >> its a bad place to be. having babies changed her life but not her love for this. >> theres no way to keep them alive out here. >> tell me whats happening. whats going on around? >> the salmon industry is going on around us. 1.5 million fish were caught in bristol bay yesterday. >> but they anticipated 40, 50 million salmon. >> theyre com...

>> last year they were saying they were going home early. >> people did come out. people pulled their boats out of the water. >> with no industrial trawlers it means more fish for everyone including set netters like melanie. instead of chasing fish she anchors her net on the bottom and then makes multiple trips to empty it. shes the fourth generation to fish this inland following the dreams of her father who came from up north. >> he also dreamt of becoming a bristol bay fisherman. when he found...

Respect people because people respect bears. there was a time when the state thought if they killed the bears, there would be more fish for the people. when this guy pops in the woods, as bears do, hes spreading marine nutrients into the valleys. everything is connected by salmon. >> im scared every year. are they going to come back and every year they show up like miracles and everybodys happy and the bears are happy and the foxes and wolves, they all cash in. >> and while the bears sit around ...

Years, wild salmons had nowhere to spawn, the atlantic habitat all but disappeared. leaving alaska as the last pure refuge for the king of fish. is there concern about the frujilt of that? or is it just like you got to make money and just hit it? >> no, this is a livelihood and there are guys who are multigenerational fishing men. >> unlike the rest of the country, alaska has a constitutional commitment to keep these guys coming back and catching fish. and to understand how, we should head north...

Better -- yes, i think so. i think by and large the managers have a retched job. probably the most thankless job on the planet. >> this is the -- >> every day gaylord and his competitors put ears to radios to learn exactly when and for how long theyre allowed to drop the net. >> will open from 5:30 p.m. july 9th until 3:00 thrt p.m. july 11th. >> its a schedule determined by alaska fish and wildlife folks a few miles inland. folks like monet a biologist from florida more comfortable with sea tur...