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By Nick Simonson I can recall the first instance of a smallmouth smashing a rusted-up firetiger Husky Jerk I weaseled out of my dad’s gold flip-sider tacklebox for a trip

FOSTER FALLS, Va. (WFXR) — When you think about great fish migrations, thoughts of the salmon runs in the Pacific Northwest or the shad runs on the Chesapeake Bay may come to mind. But, southwest Virginia has a fish run of its own. It happens every year in the late winter on the New River. […]

BY MARK CAHLIK

Jared Shypkoski is pictured with the 16.39-pound walleye he caught on Sat. Mar. 13 in the headwaters of Lake Oahe on the Missouri River system. If verified by the NDG&F Dept., it will top the previous record of 15 pounds 13 ounces caught from the Missouri River in May of 2018. (Photo Submitted) By Nick Simonson For Jared Shypkoski of Dickinson, his spring walleye adventures were already off to a great start after catching a personal best 31-inch fish on a trip to the Columbia River two weeks a...