The surf perch fishery off the coast is heating up. Surf perch population remains abundant, according to state Fish and Wildlife, and they’re an underfished species. The summer months offer the best ...

As a teenager in the 1950s, I subscribed to all three of the major outdoor magazines — Outdoor Life, Field &Stream, and Sports Afield — and devoured their contents avidly every month. The publications ...

Surf perch season is well upon us now. Once conditions clear up from these latest and much appreciated rainstorms, we’ll be looking at brand new winter-style beach topography. These are the beach ...

LONG BEACH — It was windy, raining intermittently, and the tide was ebbing — conditions not conducive to good fishing for redtail surf perch along the Washington coast. But the conditions did not stop ...

One of the many things I love about Santa Barbara is that we get Chamber of Commerce (picture-worthy) days of perfect weather right in the middle of wintertime. Those days offer some of the best surf ...

Compiled by California Outdoors Hall of Fame member Dave Hurley and edited by Roger George, who guides in the greater Fresno area and holds the striper record at Millerton Lake. Delta stripers and ...