Never in all my years of fishing have I seen so many lingcod. The counts of catch and release aboard my charter boat alone are amazing. I recall one half-day trip recently when we caught and released ...

A lingcod strike is about as subtle as a dinosaur attack. Even at a few hundred feet down and several feet of stretch in monofilament line, a lingcod can bend a rod double, muscle its way into the ...

CHUGACH ISLANDS — Sitting on an upside-down bucket and holding onto the gunwale of a 26-foot Bay Weld that rocked and rolled, Larry Keller patiently watched for his rod tip to bounce. He was taking a ...

Dock Totals 4/30– 5/13: 3,889 anglers aboard 189 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past two weeks caught 892 bluefin tuna (up to 180 pounds), 35 bocaccio, 334 bonito, 133 ...

JUST AS YOU shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, anglers shouldn’t come down too harshly on lingcod. The bottomfish species’ off-putting appearance, complete with large mouth and sharp teeth, along ...

Joey LeFebvre, a deckhand for Wild Rivers Fishing, holds a 28-pound lingcod caught by Don Stroh, left, near Brookings June 28. The lingcod fishery throughout the West Coast is in the midst of its best ...

BODEGA BAY – Since the rockfish season opened in the San Francisco Management Area on May 15, anglers fishing the deep water off the Sonoma County Coast have caught limits of rockfish and limits of ...

The lingcod fishery off the coast at Neah Bay, La Push, Westport and Ilwaco will go down as another memorable summer season. This week, chef Pat Donahue of Anthony’s Restaurants offers a delightful ...

BROOKINGS, Ore. - Don Stroh dropped a large herring over the side of the boat and let it strut its stuff along the ocean bottom, but when his rod doubled over he had no idea what big bottom-dweller ...