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 ...

After a three-year hiatus, recreational salmon fishing is making a comeback along California’s coastline in 2025, offering middle-aged men and seasoned anglers a chance to cast their lines once again.

Commercial fisherman George Jue cuts swordfish scraps to use as crab bait at Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay in 2024. The salmon fishing season has been canceled in 2023 and 2024 because the fish ...

On Dec. 12, Gov. Gavin Newsom touted the "comeback" of coho salmon after state officials spotted juvenile fish in the Russian ...

The McCloud is California’s salmon success story waiting to happen. It could once again be one of our most important ...

Adult fall-run Chinook salmon congregate near the Nimbus Hatchery Fish Ladder on the American River in Sacramento County in this October 2012 file photo. (Photo by Carl Costas/California Department of ...

California officials are debating whether to cancel the salmon fishing season for the third year in a row amid a concerningly low Chinook salmon population in the Sacramento Valley. In 2023 and 2024, ...

Restoring water for salmon runs is restorative for the region’s people as it will improve water quality for all.” ...

A newly completed restoration project on in the San Francisco Bay Area has opened more than 20 miles of habitat — and Chinook ...

After a two-year shutdown, fishing boats will fan out along the California coast angling for Chinook salmon this weekend as recreational fishing resumes under strict limits. Coastal salmon fishing was ...