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 ...

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 ...

In the Rockcod Fishing Challenge, participants compete across five categories: First Fish, Most Fish in the Day, First Lingcod, Most Species, and Largest Fish. The angler with the highest score after ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...