False albacore are weird. In the South where they’re called “bonita” they’ll chow down on almost any lure, fly, or bait you can get in front of them. Set out a chum slick and they’ll hang around for ...

It took a long time, but albacore seem to have finally arrived in our canyons. Furthermore, they're the 50- to 60-pounders that are normally common in the fall after 25- to 40-pounders usually ...

LONG BEACH, Wash. — It’s been a summer of frenetic fishing in the Pacific Northwest, with rare sightings and a record catch. Recreational fishermen along the Oregon and Washington state coasts are ...

It's late August, and like clockwork the false albacore are in. It would be hard to pinpoint their exact arrival but on Wednesday, like the flick of a switch, albie reports starting coming in from ...

Take a pitching charter boat deck on a rough sea with eight-foot swells, 16 knots of wind and plenty of salt spray, add a bit of fish slime and blood on the deck, hook a 25-pound albacore tuna and put ...

Sportfishing off Southern California during the past two years has been described as phenomenal, but the counts might be even higher if schools of albacore tuna were still around and fishing rules ...

POINT LOMAPOINT LOMA — If projections are accurate about this 2014-15 El Nino forecast, we’re in for some incredible fishing off our coast in upcoming years. It’s been a while since albacore stormed ...

Monterey Bay anglers are exultant this week. For the first time in 10 years we have albacore tuna in our area. Albacore, also known as “longfins” due to their winglike pectorals, are a much smaller ...