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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 a case of cascading cause-and-effect, limits on both rockfish and ling cod will be reduced in the northernmost part of the Kodiak archipelago. In twin advisory announcements released by ...

There are people who will get in their car at 4 a.m., drive from Philadelphia to the Shore, pay $75 to board a party boat, travel another hour to the fishing grounds, just to catch an "ugly" fish ...

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 ...

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 ...

The halibut and lingcod fishing seasons have gotten off to a fairly good start in open areas of Puget Sound and off the coast. “We had a good catch rate for lingcod at Port Townsend Boat Haven ramp ...

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

Along the West Coast, lingcod fish are top predators -- voracious eaters that aren't picky about where their next meal comes from. But lingcod in the Pacific Ocean used to be overfished, to the point ...