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 ...

Lingcod season draws to a close Nov. 30 in the Southern Rockfish and Lingcod Management Zone south of Point Conception, allowing just enough time to enjoy a delicious meal of fresh lingcod. All you ...

Here is Tony Floor’s Tackle Box report for May: Here shrimpy, shrimpy, shrimpy! Come on home, baby, right into your daddy’s shrimp pot! I’ve been waiting for the month of May for weeks, thinking about ...

The coastal lingcod and black rockfish fishery is off to a hot start at Westport, La Push and Ilwaco. “Bottomfish fishing has been really good when the weather cooperates,” said Larry Giese, owner of ...

This weekend is the latest installment in my 50-year love affair with lingcod fishing, and I can’t wait to engage in some rod-breaking, gut-busting combat with the ugly suckers. I’ve bummed a ride ...

LINGCOD FISHING MAKES its return to the North Olympic Peninsula this weekend. That’s the good news. Let’s linger on the good news for now. In Marine Area 3 (LaPush), the lingcod fishery opens Saturday ...

Monterey Bay anglers enjoyed calm and pleasant conditions this week. Some were able to fish from sunrise to sunset on a few days without being bothered by the gusty winds and persistent swells that ...

Check out our Interactive Fishing Maps! It's time to catch big uglies again those aggressive, great-tasting lingcod! Contrary to popular belief, saltwater lingcod is not actually a cod at all. It's ...

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 ...

ANGLERS MAY FIND themselves in a bit of a gap in seasons here on the North Olympic Peninsula. Out in the saltwater, blackmouth season has ended for all Peninsula marine areas. Back on land, only ...