In my never-ending quest to catch the next pesky fish, I dig up an awful lot of information, which is one of the really great things about trying to be a good fisherman. I figure the better I ...

Researchers looking at corals in the western tropical Pacific Ocean have found records linking a profound shift in the depth of the division between warm surface water and colder, deeper water ...

Jonathan Sharples, C. Mark Moore, Tom P. Rippeth, Patrick M. Holligan, David J. Hydes, Neil R. Fisher and John H. Simpson Limnology and Oceanography (L&O;) publishes research articles, reviews, and ...

I’ve long held with the belief that 10 percent of the fishermen catch 90 percent of the fish. The reason that saying rings true is that those 10 percenters understand that 90 percent of the fish are ...

Most anglers have likely heard the words "thermocline" and "turnover" associated with local fishing reports and dock talk. Both result from thermal stratification, an annual occurrence at a majority ...

As rain-free skies finally cleared sufficiently to let the sun shine for more than two or three days in a row this month, our average air temperatures have increased, and our local lakes’ surface ...

Each summer our local reservoirs begin to stratify with the warmest water near the surface and with the coldest water near the bottom. This stratification occurs because the warmer water becomes, the ...

The lower St. Johns River basin is an estuary with all the typical characteristics of a semi-enclosed body of water, open to the ocean and diluted with freshwater. That fact has been discussed ...