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 ...

The coastal lingcod and black rockfish fishery is off to a hot start at Westport, La Push and Ilwaco. “Bottomfish fishing has been really good when the weather cooperates,” said Larry Giese, owner of ...

Puget Sound: All Puget Sound marine areas are closed to salmon and steelhead fishing until further notice. State and tribes fishery managers have been unable to reach and agreement on salmon fisheries ...

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.

This week hasn't been the greatest for fishing. The Cowlitz River has been producing some winter steelhead and a few spring chinook. In the Lewis, the chinook run is just starting and a few have been ...

Puget Sound: All Puget Sound marine areas are closed to salmon and steelhead fishing until further notice. State and tribes fishery managers have been unable to reach and agreement on salmon fisheries ...