REDTAIL SURFPERCH ARE often the forgotten fish of the North Olympic Peninsula. Abundant in numbers, but smallish in size, the disc-like denizens of the area’s coastline are often ignored by anglers ...

A TEAM OF biologists is seeking the public’s help in a surfperch survey of the Pacific Ocean off our coast and along the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Jeffrey S. Jensen of the University of Washington ...

As for hot local fisheries, the redtail surfperch spawning in the Umpqua River above Winchester Bay went on a torrid bite last week. Last weekend was Washington’s Free Fishing Weekend. Oregon’s next ...

LONG BEACH, Wash. (AP) — 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 ...

FLORENCE, Ore. — Fishing for redtail surfperch on the Oregon Coast is like dancing the tango to the languid rhythm of the ocean's beat. Between waves, anglers embracing long surf-casting rods advance ...

The run of female redtail surfperch into the lower Umpqua River above Winchester Bay is going strong. Although it is still early in the run, there have been a number of boat limits caught last weekend ...

SEATTLE — 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 ...