SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The 2025 commercial salmon fishing season in California will be closed for an unprecedented third year running, and sportfishing will be restricted to only a few days due to ...

Summer isn't quite over, and there is still time to do more fishing at a lake, river, or body of water near you, and a fishing website has compiled a list of the 30 best lakes in California for the ...

Concrete raceways sit dry and rust-streaked at the Mad River Fish Hatchery in Humboldt County on Friday, May 2, 2025. The state plans to shut down the aging facility in June, citing escalating repair ...

The 2025 commercial salmon fishing season in California will be closed for an unprecedented third year running, and sportfishing will be restricted to only a few days due to dwindling numbers of fish, ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has announced two upcoming free fishing days that will allow California anglers to cast out on a local lake or stream without needing a state fishing ...

A professor at UC San Diego has made a surprising and dangerous discovery: 90% of freshwater fish in the Southern California region are infected with parasites. Hechinger and his team’s research ...

California’s embattled salmon populations continue to struggle. According to figures released on February 26 by the California Department of Fish & Wildlife (CDFW) at an Anadromous Fishes Conservation ...

If you’re a true trout nut looking for the best trout fishing in the country, then you need to pack your bags and visit—or even move to—one of these best trout towns in the U.S. We selected these 10 ...

Following up on a tip to the state’s poaching hotline, game wardens in California rushed to a popular fishing spot, Clifton Court Forebay, in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. They’d received a ...

Several months after the start of a pilot program aiming to restore salmon runs in California’s Sierra County, Chinook salmon can be found in the North Yuba River “for the first time in close to a ...