Researchers found that selectively fishing for lingcod in protected areas actually avoided hampering the recovery of other fish, including rockfish species listed as overfished. Along the West Coast, ...

It was an awesome, perhaps disturbing, sight. Possession Bar on Sunday, May 1, opening day of our in-Sound lingcod season, crawling with recreational fishing boats of every description. A lot of boats ...

The halibut and lingcod fishing seasons have gotten off to a fairly good start in open areas of Puget Sound and off the coast. “We had a good catch rate for lingcod at Port Townsend Boat Haven ramp ...

While the state of salmon fishing seasons remains up in the air, the one thing anglers can count on this spring and early summer are decent catches of lingcod, halibut and black rockfish. Coastal ...

BODEGA BAY — Fishing for lingcod and rockfish has been wide-open off the Sonoma County Coast over the past few weeks. Decent numbers of king salmon are being hooked by anglers also, but many fish are ...

Most of the daylight catch has been on fly-lined bait, while nighttime fish are holding deeper and biting jigs. One rule of ...

MONTEREY – The groundfish season started in Monterey, Half Moon Bay and Bodega Bay on April 1 with top-notch deep water rockfish fishing for the boats that went out. During April, rockfishing is ...

Big game hunters were frustrated this week. We know there are huge schools of bluefin tuna all along the Northern California coast, but recent weather conditions have made it difficult if not ...

A small craft advisory was issued through Thursday evening but the weekend looks to be much more calm, with swells in the four to six-foot range and winds forecast to peak around 10 knots. That is ...

Join me on a fishing adventure as I try to catch a big fish using various methods, including 7-inch swimbaits, a large piece ...

Along the West Coast, lingcod fish are top predators -- voracious eaters that aren't picky about where their next meal comes from. But lingcod in the Pacific Ocean used to be overfished, to the point ...