Last month, the Outdoors column featured a short section on jetty fishing opportunities available up here on the North Olympic Peninsula at tinyurl.com/PDN-Jetty. The ...

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 ...

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, ...

Bottom fishing has been excellent out of Westport this spring. Ling cod and rockfish stocks are both healthy, and some recovering stocks have rebounded enough that some rules have been loosened.

Wedged in its hole 90 feet down the rocky pinnacle, the moody creature lurked, all eyeballs, teeth and jaws. Currents swirled a briny world past the hole -- first a herring, followed later by a small ...

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 ...