Washington angler Leo Vergara shattered the kayak halibut record (for a halibut taken from a kayak outside of Alaska) when he weighed in a 124-pound Pacific halibut on the last day of the short season ...

Leo Vergara, a Washington kayak fisherman, landed a 124-pounder to set a new standard for halibut caught from a kayak, losing a rod and reel in the process. Kayak fisherman Leo Vergara lost a rod and ...

Maybe the hot, hot weather and/or the big tide swing put a damper on the tuna fishing for the second week in a row. Yes, the yellowfin and bluefin are around, as is their cousin bonito, which seems to ...

The way Jay Hicks sees it, fishing by kayak is the only way to go when it’s time to go fishing. “Your fuel is breakfast and coffee. You don’t have to have a (boating) license, you don’t have to slip ...

The 57-pound halibut Rudy Tsukada caught last month in the Cook Inlet was no small feat. Sure, it wasn't a barn door by Alaska halibut standards, but then Tsukada isn't your standard Alaska fisherman, ...

In 2005, my brother Russ and I launched a couple of kayaks into the Sea of Cortez and paddled out to inter our father’s ashes off Punta Willard in Bahia de San Luis Gonzaga. After our sunrise ceremony ...

Join me as I kayak in search of Halibut at Oyster Point in San Francisco Bay, tandem with Jun @MoreThanFishing. Mark your calendars: the 2025 Fisherman's Life Street Fair X More Than Fishing Surf ...

SEWARD, Alaska — David Rokser was pedaling his fishing kayak last week, trolling as he went along, hoping to catch a salmon or maybe a rockfish. The Duluth native was on Resurrection Bay in the North ...

You might call Nick Rose-Rankin a lucky man. Last Saturday he won first place in the long-running Monterey Bay Kayaks Kayak Fishing Derby. And, he did it in a fashion never seen before in MBK Derby ...

Ocean kayak fishing has been around forever, but really started to get popular in our area about 20 years ago. Since then, interest in the sport has exploded with dozens of ‘yaks on the nearshore ...

This is a fish story with scarcely any fish in it. It does, however, have kayaks in abundance. That's to celebrate the fact that use of the kayak as an angling platform has -- in the past decade -- ...

OAK HARBOR, Wash. -- Two enlisted men from Texas and California were not equipped for cold and windy northern waters when they went halibut fishing from kayaks and drowned not far from the Whidbey ...