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 ...

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 ...

As the rockfish and lingcod season ended Dec. 31, I got to thinking about past grand battles and recalled one to share. It was a fishing battle worth telling, and also a tale of tough decisions. Not ...

MONTEREY - For the first time in over two decades, anglers are now able to fish the deep water off the Monterey and Santa Cruz County Coast for groundfish. Rockfish and lingcod season in the Monterey ...

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 ...

Lingcod season opened Monday to dicey weather conditions and unfriendly tides, but those who got out early in the morning for the softer tidal situation managed to find a few fish at most of the ...

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 ...

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 ...