Today we're out on the open water trolling for salmon. We're with Antonio on Lake Ontario, flat-line trolling along the shoreline along a drop. Gold American Smelts are the lure of choice today as the ...

With salmon populations struggling, fishery officials have decided to ban fishing along the California coast for a second straight year. The Pacific Fishery Management Council, a multi-state, ...

Salmon fishing was “starting to pick up” across Michigan this past week, officials said. “Anglers targeting Chinook salmon had better luck this past week as fishing was starting to pick up,” on Lake ...

Wild Fish Conservancy has filed a lawsuit that could effectively end commercial king salmon trolling in southeast Alaska. The conservation group claimed Alaska’s salmon harvesting threatens endangered ...

One of those overcast and slightly rainy, spring days, but the American Smelt was able to entice the salmon bite, and one of ...

Growing up as I did in mid-Ohio, I didn’t have much reason to think about what might constitute the best salmon lures. Walleyes? Yes. Crappies? Absolutely. Smallmouth? From time to time; but never ...

It’s not prime time yet, but salmon action is picking up in several areas of Michigan, according to state officials. Some 18-plus pound Chinook salmon were reported out of Frankfort, according to the ...

The 2010 fall broodstock Atlantic salmon fishing season is underway. The DEP began its annual stockings of surplus broodstock Atlantic salmon a couple of weeks ago by releasing 100 salmon into the ...

Snapshots from an environmental and economic disaster: Kenneth Brown, the owner of Bodega Tackle in Petaluma, reckons he has lost almost $450,000 in the last year. “I haven’t taken a paycheck in seven ...

Here’s how fishing looks this week in the Northwest Lower Peninsula, Northeast Lower Peninsula and Upper Peninsula, according to the latest report from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

William "Captain Smitty" Smith stands for a portrait at Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay in 2024. (Loren Elliott / For The Times) After a two-year shutdown, fishing boats will fan out along the ...