The 2026 halibut fishing season got underway in several Puget Sound and Strait of Juan de Fuca marine areas on Thursday, ...

Fishing derbies are like the lottery in that you can’t win unless you enter. Lorna Illingworth, for example, caught a 158-pound halibut last weekend while fishing during the “Halibut Hullabaloo” out ...

The International Fish and Game Association (IFGA) is in the process of determining if a 13-year-old from Hampton, New Hampshire caught a record-setting halibut. Jackson Denio reeled in the 177-pound ...

The Pacific halibut opening date for waters off California this year aligns with the April 1 opening date for all-depth recreational boat-based fishing for many groundfish species statewide, including ...

A Quebec angler who braved sub-freezing temperatures recently to participate in a research project ended up reeling a record-size halibut through the ice. The massive halibut, caught Jan. 31 by Alain ...

Chris’ Fishing Trips posted half to full limits of nearshore rockfish and up to 12 lingcod on Check Mate trips this week. J&M Charters hosted 11 anglers aboard Kahuna on Monday and they did well with ...

Rockfish limits were the rule this week for anglers launching from Monterey Harbor. Charter and private boats headed around the Point Pinos corner and fished a great mix of yellows, blacks, blues, and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire ...

The halibut fishery of the North Pacific -- long touted as a model for wise fisheries management and the goodness of privatizing commercial fisheries -- is now in such dire straits regulators were ...