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 ...

Saturday marks the opening of recreational Dungeness crab fishing for the 2023-2024 season. In order to avoid entanglements with the large number of whales feeding in nearshore areas along ...

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 ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced commercial Dungeness crab restrictions will be lifted on Jan. 5 in DFW Zones 1 and 2. Recreational anglers in those zones may use traditional ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has issued a stoppage of crab fishing with traps for the Monterey Bay for the protection of whales. The CDFW announced on Friday that crab fishing will ...

Crab traps are back in play for California’s recreational fleet, and the timing could reshape how you spend the first full weekend of the new year on the water. With recreational crab trap ...

One of the closest things to a sure bet in California fishing this time of year is going on a trip for crab and rockfish. The vast majority of trips departing from harbors from Half Moon Bay to Bodega ...