While fishing a small pond several years ago, I began picking up trash that had been left on the bank. I removed wads of fishing line off the ground and out of the nearby vegetation. There seemed to be no end in sight--one piece of discarded fishing line led to the next. I began to wonder about what impacts all this discarded fishing line is having on the environment.

As it turned out, fishing line pollution poses a real threat to wildlife, not to mention a hazard to boaters and

You can now download and print our Green Fishing brochure if you would like to help spread the word about green fishing.

In this blog post I am going to show you how you can replace the treble hooks on your fishing lures with Gamakatsu Siwash hooks. More and more lures are coming with single siwash hooks as an option these days and more and more anglers are making the switch. Whether or not using single siwash hooks to replace treble hooks is "better" is a subject of some debate. I have heard compelling arguments backed by personal experiences on both sides. So,

The website HowStuffWorks has put together a Responsible Fishing Library. This is an excellent collection of articles containing information and techniques for responsible fishing; a great resource for new fishermen or anglers who are less familiar with the potential effects we can have on the environment when we are out fishing.