It’s high noon and discharge at Priest Rapids Dam is 100,000 cubic feet per second. I drop my anchor in 10 feet of water and put two rods out. Each is baited with a red prawn on a double-hook rig, ...
Oregon fish officials are stocking kokanee in Green Peter Reservoir again, despite the fact that they may once again get flushed back out.
Anglers might face low sockeye catch rates due to lower run size and heavy weeds. Success hinges on locating river 'sweet spots' shaped by current and terrain shifts. Dam operations affect river ...
COOPER LANDING — Sockeye salmon are running on the Kenai Peninsula and fishermen are taking note. Crowds flooded the Russian and Kenai Rivers over the past week as the Russian reached its early-run ...
Summer in Soldotna, Alaska, is full of long days; July 1 is a 19-hour day and the 31st of August runs nearly 14 and a half hours. For fishing guide Andrew Chadwick, long days are just part of the job.
Editor’s Note: Alan Liere is on vacation, so he wrote about sockeye fishing instead of his weekly fish-hunt report. In July, I hope to fish again for sockeye salmon at the mouth of the Okanogan River ...
If you’ve never seen a fish bite a bare hook, you probably have never fished in Lake Wenatchee for sockeye salmon. Luckily, the salmon will readily bite a bare hook, because if they didn’t it would ...
For the first time in more than a century, sockeye salmon are swimming home to their historic spawning grounds in British ...
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A Citywide Toast to Sockeye

Seattle’s fishing culture is something to be proud of. Drive over the Ballard Bridge on any given day and you’ll see the ...
Too early for sure. I REALLY wanted to stay in bed, but even after four days of the same early morning wake-up call, I rolled out because I knew what awaited in the hours ahead. My son Kyle and I ...
Every summer, many rivers across Alaska appear as if they have caught fire. The water turns a deep, almost impossible red as if someone spilled paint across the current.