Despite the delay of commercial Dungeness crab season, and the temporary prohibition against using ”long soak” rigid crab pots, plenty of Monterey Bay residents enjoyed their traditional Thanksgiving ...

Question: Is it legal to use hoop nets to catch crab off piers in California this time of the year? I thought I read crab season runs through June. However, the hoop net is a net people use for ...

Nighttime lobster season comes alive along the California coast as spiny lobsters are carefully pulled from the depths using ...

You waited all week, loaded your fishing kayak before dawn, drove for hours, paddled for miles, made a hundred casts, and finally hooked the fish of a lifetime. The fish runs, jumps, and dives before ...

With local lobster costing about $25 per pound, it makes sense to look into the world of hoop netting for lobsters. Ben Hong from Promar Nets said lobster hoop netters have had good success this year.

An experiment earlier this summer using hoop nets instead of trap nets to sample channel catfish along the U.S. portion of the Red River yielded results that exceeded even the most optimistic ...

The San Diego coastline delivers an exciting spiny lobster haul as hoop nets are dropped into rocky structure and pulled with ...

It’s not over ‘til it’s over. That phrase is highly applicable to fishing because anglers understand that until a fish in landed and secured, anything can happen—no matter how sure you are that ...

Farley Eaglespeaker (center) reels in a traditional hoop net while fishing for salmon on the Columbia River in Skamania County, Washington on June 23, 2024. (Jordan Gale/Oregon Capital Chronicle) This ...