Despite the delay of commercial Dungeness crab season, and the temporary prohibition against using ”long soak” rigid crab pots, plenty of Monterey Bay residents enjoyed their traditional Thanksgiving ...

It was just after 11 p.m. Thursday night, and we’d already been hoop-netting for lobsters for over three hours. We had eaten our tasty, greasy boat cheeseburger from the Alicia’s galley. Now we were ...

Question: Is it legal to use hoop nets to catch crab off piers in California this time of the year? I thought I read crab season runs through June. However, the hoop net is a net people use for ...

Question: In regards to catching California spiny lobster, the regulations say the following: Both rigid and collapsible hoop nets may be used from piers and boats. When fishing from a boat, five nets ...

If you want to go lobster hoop netting, you only have until Wednesday to do so before the season closes. Captain Dave Dodge reported that the lobster hoop netting inside Long Beach Harbor has been ...

Dock Totals Oct 8 – Oct 14: 3,793 anglers aboard 165 boats out of San Diego landings this past week caught 139 bluefin tuna, 4,815 yellowfin tuna, 1,331 skipjack tuna, 469 dorado, 2,164 yellowtail, 1 ...

The Gail Force starts lobster hoop-netting trips this weekend out of Pierpoint Landing in Long Beach. Captain Ryan Gengler says he is a go for today, Saturday and Sunday evening no matter how many ...

Saturday marks the opening of recreational Dungeness crab fishing for the 2023-2024 season. In order to avoid entanglements with the large number of whales feeding in nearshore areas along ...

Sometimes the fishing is tough, even for guys allowed to catch 'em with electricity or giant nets. Kevin Hopkins and Jon Stein use both in their work to keep tabs on the fish population at Beaver Lake ...