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 ...

While a few doors on spring fishing opportunities close, many others have swung wide open with decent action reported. Lingcod fishing in Puget Sound, which started off on slow side when it opened May ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

WHITTIER -- There's a local saying about Whittier in which a colorful adjective that rhymes with the town's name is used to describe weather in and around the tiny Prince William Sound community. Hint ...

Everything is bigger in Alaska. Never mind the bears and moose. Consider fishing. Whereas California fishermen may target lingcod using four-ounce weighted rubber jigs, in Alaska they use one-pound ...

Picking up hitch hikers was a pleasing and profitable element of the experience for two of the three money winners in Patriot Sportfishing’s sixth-annual Lingcod Contest, which ended Nov. 15. While ...

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 ...