While the ongoing eruption of a volcano in Iceland has caused havoc for local farmers and travelers throughout Europe, a possible eruption of a much stronger volcano at the Yellowstone National Park would be potentially devastating.

By Bill Burton You can't keep them, but shad can be had for catch and release - and as close as our Patuxent River.

By Bill Burton It wasn't on the Big Blue of Montana, king of all trout states, though the weather wasn't much different, as I watched Raymond Foster of Curtis Bay crank in his first rainbow trout of the day.

By Bill Burton Ice in this area is not thick enough to go fishing, but in many places it's too thick a skim for open water casting - and it's too cold for many fishermen to go anyhow. Out at Deep Creek Lake in Garrett County, fishermen are waiting it out.

Barack Obama suggested Friday that he has more foreign policy experts from the Clinton administration backing his candidacy over Hillary Rodham Clinton's, but lists provided by both campaigns show hers is nearly twice as long.