Surf perch are plentiful in the Southern California surf during the winter months. In many parts of the country, surf anglers are always looking for the biggest and baddest players. Striped bass are a ...

Dock Totals 2/4 – 2/10: 208 anglers aboard 12 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 14 calico bass, 1 halibut, 64 lobster (142 released), 38 perch, 62 rock crab, ...

The wheel turns. Every year we have a slump in the fishing action in and around Monterey Bay around this time. Dungeness are getting skinny and more scarce, rockfish season has yet to begin, halibut ...

Wildlife officers in a patrol boat during California’s spiny lobster season opener witnessed illegal fishing activities occurring near a jetty at the entrance to the Channel Islands Harbor. During the ...

Winter is fast approaching. We’ve already had a couple significant northwest swells hit the Monterey Bay. Surf perch season is well upon us now. Once conditions clear up from these latest and much ...

Dock Totals 7/3 – 7/9: 3,950 anglers aboard 162 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings this past week caught 961 barracuda, 83 bluefin tuna (to 70 pounds), 676 bonito, 2,625 calico bass, ...

Climbed down a steep cliff to reach a fishing spot where I caught some nice Striped Surf Perch. I used swimbaits for a couple of hours before switching to shrimp bait. Demonstrated an efficient way to ...

Compiled by California Outdoors Hall of Fame member Dave Hurley and edited by Roger George, who guides in the greater Fresno area and holds the striper record at Millerton Lake. Delta stripers and ...

LONG BEACH — It was windy, raining intermittently, and the tide was ebbing — conditions not conducive to good fishing for redtail surf perch along the Washington coast. But the conditions did not stop ...