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 ...

BERKELEY – During periods of calm weather this time of year, you can take your pick of fishing shallow water from a kayak, skiff or charter boat off the Marin County Coast or fishing newly-opened deep ...

Sean Doyle of Visalia became the Week-31 qualifier for Virg’s Lingcod Tournament is with his catch of a 28.6-pound ling. Virg’s manager Bruce Harwood reported: “High swells put a damper on fishing ...

On a beautiful fishing day with a 5ft swell, low tide at 2.8 and high tide at 3.4, I utilized two poles: one rigged with ...

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 ...

In this video, we attempt to use live eel as bait for big lingcod, but things don't go as planned. Key equipment featured ...

Weather conditions for the weekend look decent for inshore anglers. Winds will be gusting higher in the afternoons, so an early start to the day is recommended. We may see some bigger wind-chop wave ...

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 ...

Dock Totals Dec 9 – Dec 15: 936 anglers aboard 63 half day to three day trips out of San Diego landings this past week caught 3 bluefin tuna, 1 yellowfin tuna, 21 skipjack tuna, 75 yellowtail, 14 ...

For some people, the thought of losing a tooth sounds like a painful experience, but for the Pacific lingcod, it's an everyday thing. In fact, this fish loses 20 teeth and grows them all back in one ...

If there is one place you don’t want to stick your finger, it’s the mouth of a Pacific lingcod. These fearsome fish, which can grow up to 5 feet in length and weigh 80 pounds, have around 500 ...

After a week of fair weather and calm ocean conditions, the current forecast calls for building seas through next week. The forecast includes windy conditions over the weekend. Though open-ocean winds ...