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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...