Like many other Bay Area skippers, Captain Frank Rescino is gearing up for the beginning of crab-rockfish combos and crab-only fishing adventures. Bay Striper Fishing is Great as Captains Gear Up ...

The Lovely Martha returned with 21 limits of striped bass and four halibut on their last half-day live bait drifting adventure from 6 a.m. to noon on Sunday, Oct. 28.

Lake Mendocino is known as a warm-water fishery with smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, striped bass, catfish and carp that thrive in the summer, officials said. "Any winter fishing is dead around ...

"I started fishing that lake when I was 8 years old. I've never seen that many carp combined in one area," said George, 32, a former commercial fisherman who now drives a truck.