Jax Jigs have been an on-demand weapon for Central Coast saltwater fishermen for more than 20 years. The jigs come in nine different colors and in weights ranging from 4 to 16 ounces. They are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Well, in my own defense, I was raised as a steelheader, and the phrase that pretty much occupied my waking hours for 20 years was “set hard on the bumps.” What that meant, and still means, of course, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...