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Northern Exposure actress Elaine Miles said she was stopped and detained by immigration agents who allegedly dismissed her tribal identification as “fake."Miles, who is Native American, said in a now-deleted Facebook post that the incident occurred as she was walking to a bus stop near the Bear Creek Village shopping centre in Redmond, Washington, according to The Seattle Times. “On November 3, ICE was conducting targeted immigration enforcement traffic stops and encountered Elaine Miles while investigating a vehicle registered to an illegal alien. She was never arrested. Any claim that ICE questioned her tribal ID are FALSE. ICE agents are...

...It was the fish of a lifetime—a 76.5-pound white marlin that won him the world’s largest annual billfish tournament, the White Marlin Open, and $2,818,662 in prize money... He swears it happened just like that. Fishing is full of tall tales about the one that got away, and polygraph tests... are now used in high-stakes fishing tournaments. Mr. Heasley, like many winners, was required to take the test. Texas and Alabama, have passed laws to combat fish-tournament fraud. A few weeks later, Mr. Heasley, along with two crew mates, one of whom said he was hung over after drinking 15...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Two brothers living on Lake Minnetonka have a big fish story to tell. James and Johnny Range Jr. are part of a fishing league on the lake, and they reeled in a huge muskie Tuesday night. The brothers often fish off their dock. They typically reel in sunfish, but the anglers also go after a bigger catch during competition.

<p>Greg Myerson knew what he had — a striped bass — and he knew it was big. Just not that big.</p> <p>It seems as if everyone wants to talk to Myerson these days after he landed an 81.88-pound, 54-inch striped bass earlier this month. Sporting goods stores want reproduction mounts of the big one. Tackle companies are calling. Myerson, a union electrician who has been in and out of work this year, should receive some money from what will be a world record if it's certified by the International Game Fish Association (IGFA). He said he has submitted the necessary documentation, so that rigorous process has started.</p>

CRAZED North Korean leader Kim Jong-il gobbles LIVE FISH as he plots his rogue country's bid to become a nuclear power. Pint-sized Kim, 68, washes them down with fine French wines and brandies, even though two million of his subjects have died of starvation. His former chef Kenji Fujimoto said: "He particularly enjoyed raw fish so fresh that he could start eating as its mouth is still gasping and the tail is still thrashing. "I sliced the fish so as not to puncture any of the vital organs, so of course it was still moving. Kim Jong-il was delighted. He...

The environmental story of the year has come out, but the “inconvenient truth”—to borrow a phrase from Al Gore--seems to be more than most environmentalists can handle. In 2005 biologists John Woodling and David Norris carried out a study of fish in Colorado’s Boulder Creek. What they found was highly disturbing. As reported in the pages of the Denver Post, out of 123 randomly captured fish, primarily trout, the normal 1:1 male-female balance was seriously disrupted. 101 of the fish found were female, 12 were male, and 10 were a strange, unnatural hybrid of male and female, so much so...

A fish caught in Lubbock, Texas, with teeth that look like they belong to a human has baffled wildlife officials in the area, according to a report.

A 69-year-old German tourist could go home to tell the ultimate "big fish story" after a fishing adventure on Norway's Sognefjord. Dieter Krüger of Hamburg also had to go home exhausted and slightly shaken after hooking a halibut that weighed in at 105 kilos (231 pounds). But very happy indeed, if a bit stiff.

A Hungarian fisherman has drowned while trying to catch a 150lb catfish. Gabor Komlosy was dragged into a river when he refused to let go of the line. The 53-year-old's body was later pulled from the Szamos river still clinging to his rod. The 4ft monster catfish was still hooked on the end. Police in Hungary believe he had been yanked down the bank of the river by the fish. It had then pulled him through the water until he hit his head on a rock and drowned. A spokesman said: "When we pulled in his line, the fish was...

Mackerel catches fisherman By Roberta Mancuso May 03, 2005 From: AAP A QUEENSLAND fisherman suffered the ultimate revenge when a mackerel jumped into his boat and floored him – and then got away. In what he called a bad case of "fishy's revenge", Glen Hopper suffered bruised ribs, cuts to his face and arms and a dented ego when the 1.5m fish jumped out of the water and hit him on Sunday morning. "It felt like I'd just run into a brick wall, because I was going 20 knots one way and it was speeding the opposite direction," the 43-year-old...

Anyhow a resident in the area saw a ball bouncing around kind of strange like in the developments pond and when he went to investigate, it was a flathead catfish who had obviously tried to swallow a child's basketball which became stuck in its mouth. The fish was totally exhausted from trying to dive but unable to because the ball would always bring him back up to the surface. The resident tried numerous times to get the ball out but was unsuccessful. He finally had his wife cut the ball in order to deflate the ball and release the catfish....

Norwegian Catches Halibut Too Big for Boat 2 hours, 52 minutes ago Strange News - AP OSLO, Norway - Unlike many fishermen, Harald Skoge didn't have to exaggerate the size of his latest catch. The 321-pound halibut was too big for his nearly 29-foot boat. Skoge, who fishes as a hobby, was trying his luck off western Norway with a simple hook and line on Wednesday when he thought something had gone wrong. "At first, I thought the hook had gotten stuck at the bottom," the retiree was quoted as saying in Friday's edition of his local newspaper, Sunnmoersposten. Slowly,...

EVELYN KRISTO/Valley Press LANCASTER - When Barbara Bussiere bought her lion fish two years ago it was about as intimidating as a Koosh ball. Now the fish is about the size of a dinner plate, can swallow as many as five live goldfish whole in one feeding and its sting landed Bussiere in the hospital. Bussiere knew the pet fish was poisonous when she bought it two years ago. On Tuesday afternoon she found out just how poisonous. Even how potentially deadly. She was cleaning the fish tank. "I felt a sting and within 30 seconds I was on my...