Rusty Pritchard was the only spoonbill guide on Grand Lake in 1997 when, as a high school sophomore, he started showing anglers how to catch the Oklahoma marlin. "I was probably the only spoonbill ...

Pakhnyuk was charged after an undercover operation in the Warsaw, Missouri, area known as the Roadhouse between 2010 and 2012. Prosecutors say state and federal undercover agents observed him catching ...

A photo of a young David Cox holding a paddlefish hangs Sunday, April 16, 2023, inside a memory room near he and wife Vicki's antique store in English, Indiana. Cox climbed his way up from high school ...

Nearly one year after pleading guilty to illegally harvesting paddlefish in the Ohio River, the son-in-law of Indiana's former "Caviar King" was sentenced last week in federal court. Joseph Schigur of ...

You may not know it, but Indiana has been home to a cottage caviar industry since the 1990s. It's based on the Ohio River and the source of the roe is the odd-looking American paddlefish. Here's what ...

CINCINNATI, Ohio, January 17, 2012 (ENS) – Two Kentuckians and their caviar companies pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio to trafficking in and falsely ...

A years-long wildlife poaching investigation that sent Indiana caviar king David Cox to federal prison in 2018 has now netted Cox's son-in-law. Joseph Schigur of English pleaded guilty Tuesday to ...

I don't tell too many fish stories in this column. I usually leave those to my colleague Kelly Bostian in the Sports department. But this one is a whopper. It seems that the rest of the world is ...

GLENDIVE, Mont. — Fishing here conjures images of waders and featherweight flies landing softly on lazy rivers, an irresistible lure for the 1- or 2-pound trout swimming beneath. Catching a giant ...

It's a long way from the shores of the Caspian Sea to the banks of Grand Lake. But the hard times the European caviar industry is experiencing are being felt in Oklahoma and elsewhere in the United ...