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 ...

Large ling cod have started to move into the shallow and the Charter Boat Legacy had a trip to remember at New Year Island. “In my years of fishing Monterey Bay I have never seen fishing this good for ...

* Fish at night: Anglers sometimes catch ling during the day but being nocturnal they're much easier to catch at night when they're the most active. Start ice fishing at sunset and try glow jigs ...

Wedged in its hole 90 feet down the rocky pinnacle, the moody creature lurked, all eyeballs, teeth and jaws. Currents swirled a briny world past the hole -- first a herring, followed later by a small ...

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 ...

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 ...

Inshore: The half-day boats have been fishing the midcolumn off the kelp for sculpin and calico bass, and the flats for sand bass and halibut with mixed success. The closure on rockfishing and the ...

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, ...

This is the Hook, Line and Sinker aggregate page. Scroll down for more stories. Catch a fish we need to know about, email [email protected] While anglers have been catching ling at a pretty steady ...