Long-line caught halibut await unloading in Petersburg. (Angela Denning/KFSK) Regulations for Alaska halibut charters are looser this summer for the second year in a row. The groups regulating halibut ...

Charter halibut guides operating in the central Gulf of Alaska and Southeast Alaska will not be required to have a charter halibut permit on board during a recreational halibut fishing trip if the ...

Big halibut are hard to hold up and hard to reel up, but well worth the trouble. A rare summer season for halibut has opened on the Washington coast after the spring season was closed. (Photo courtesy ...

As another halibut fishing season cranks up with the opening of the months-long Homer Jackpot Halibut Derby, Southcentral charter boat anglers who pursue Alaska's hefty and tasty flatfish face another ...

The halibut fishery begins Monday in Puget Sound and the eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the outlook should be fairly decent. “We’ve got a lot of guys gearing up for halibut, and while it won’t be ...

The ratchet keeps tightening on Southcentral halibut charter operations, among other groups, and relief measures are still stuck in development. The level of legally harvestable halibut in the North ...

Call it beginner’s luck. Add in the fact that he was a gracious winner, and you have Mike Smiley’s recent Alaskan halibut fishing adventure. Smiley, 40, of Baldwinsville, recently won $10,000 for ...

Two Washington state charter captains learned this week that they'll serve time in jail and pay a combined $23,000 after being convicted of unlawful recreational fishing. They're also banned from ...