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 ...

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 ...

Everything is bigger in Alaska. Never mind the bears and moose. Consider fishing. Whereas California fishermen may target lingcod using four-ounce weighted rubber jigs, in Alaska they use one-pound ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Check out our Interactive Fishing Maps! It's time to catch big uglies again those aggressive, great-tasting lingcod! Contrary to popular belief, saltwater lingcod is not actually a cod at all. It's ...