Charter operations are enjoying a mass of blue rockfish this year. These schooling fish are a blast to catch on shrimp fly jigs, irons or swimbaits.

The groundfish season started off Monterey, Half Moon Bay and Bodega Bay on Monday, April 1 with top-notch deep water rockfish fishing.

The rockfish/lingcod closure is over for the year, and it’s time to go out and catch a mess of delicious rockfish. The bag limit on rockfish is 10 fish per person and is plenty to make a meal ...

Most aboard used a large jig for lingcod and vermillion rockfish, with a "cheater," often a grub tied off a loop above the jig. By 9:30 a.m., it was limits for all aboard.

When we get our lures deeper, we are catching olive, yellowtail, copper, gopher, vermilion and other rockfish. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has approved the rockfish, lingcod and greenling (RCG) regulations for the 2024 fishing season, finally. Apparently one final submission and legal app… ...

Good lingcod baits are flounder, kelp greenling, horse herring or artificial scampi-type jigs. The northern coast off Neah Bay opens April 16 for lingcod and other bottomfish.

Recommended tackle for these trips include 40-pound setups for yellowtail, lingcod, and deep rockfish, 4- to 20-ounce sinkers, yo-yo jigs, and plenty of J-hooks from size 1 to 4/0.

Large pipe jigs and lead-headed jigs with double-tailed white plastic worms often are used. Live sole or small rockfish also work very well and tend to catch larger lings.

Idaho natives Nick Young and his son, Jaxon, have taken their fishing guide business to Gold Beach, Oregon, where they are targeting salmon, rockfish and lingcod. Jordan Rodriguez Years ago, while ...

Berkeley: California Dawn had 218 rockfish, 32 lingcod, two salmon, and a halibut and cabezon for 25 people; Goldeneye 2000 had 115 rockfish, 44 lingcod for 23.

Still, it’s not uncommon for those using lead-headed jigs seeking rockfish off the ocean bottom to run into enough lingcod that they keep only the biggest and best.