The inshore rockfish season opened May 1 with many boats reporting limits of lingcod and rockfish to 20 pounds. Ben Mechling of Reel Addiction Sportfishing took his six anglers to the Marin County ...

Rockfish and crab are the story at Fort Bragg, where Captain Tim Gillespie of All Aboard Adventures reported limits of rockfish with off and on lingcod action along the local reefs. The Dungeness crab ...

Lots of anglers are having lots of fun on and around the Monterey Bay these days. We are also enjoying the bounty of fresh healthy seafood from a variety of species. Rock cod fishing continues to be ...

Learn to land big black rockfish and lingcod with the right rod and knot! I show you how to tie the FG knot - the smoothest ...

Rockfish is going strong both for nearshore and deep water species. Most productive areas are from Point Pinos, south past Carmel, and to Big Sur, of course. Charter boats from Monterey continue to ...

Capt. Tiffany Vague, owner of Vague Rods, holds up a large lingcod caught in the Santa Barbara Channel. (Courtesy photo) Yes, this is really a thing — anglers give rides to hitchhikers, then have them ...

Dock Totals 9/28 – 10/4: 2875 anglers aboard 139 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 3 barracuda, 2376 bluefin tuna (to 200 pounds), 508 bonito, 3 cabezon, 100 ...

Dock Totals 3/16 – 3/22: 947 anglers aboard 35 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 15 bonito, 5 calico bass, 6 halibut (22 released), 4 lingcod, 6 perch, 102 ...

Coastal anglers will be able to keep more lingcod in 2026, while Oregon’s general marine bag limit for rockfish and other nearshore species will remain at four fish per day.

ROCKFISH BAN A GOOD THING IF IT SAVES, RESTORES STOCKS Welcome to a new era in ocean sport fishing. An era in which you fish for fewer bottom species in shallower waters. You now are living through a ...

On Friday, the National Marine Fisheries Service moved to open all-depth fishing of multiple species of rockfish in federal waters off the coast of most of California, after research earlier this year ...