Boats all along the shoreline, but no nets out. Magpies squawk in the alders. A tennis shoe floats by. Plastic bottles, bundles of dried sedge, and tumbleweeds join the parade. About the only thing ...

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 ...

In the fishing towns of northern Washington State and coastal Alaska, the sockeye salmon is more than just a fish. It is a recurring miracle, a gift of God, the source of steady jobs, paid-up bills, ...

All sockeye fishing will close Thursday evening in the mainstem Columbia River from the mouth up to Pasco, Washington. Despite an apparent record return of sockeye across Bonneville Dam, nearly all of ...

While far short of record return years, some Columbia River salmon runs are tweaking memories of the good ol’ days. Anglers in the Tri-Cities area set a harvest record for sockeye this month as the ...

A northern Kenai fishing report published by the State Department of Fish and Game on Friday says sockeye fishing on the Kenai River is “exceptional.” Freshwater fishing The Russian River and Russian ...

Sockeye fishing took on a larger purpose for a handful of volunteers at the mouth of the Yakima River early on June 26. Rather than keep the salmon that have been relatively plentiful in the Columbia ...

Five-hundred of the kokanee that were flushed out of Green Peter Reservoir in the 2023 "deep drawdown" have returned as ...

The Copper River sockeye run has improved after an abysmal start, but not enough for managers to allow for normal fishing periods in the famed early season fishery. Alaska Department of Fish and Game ...

As returning sockeye salmon to the Columbia River continue to exceed preseason expectations, fishery managers with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) announced Wednesday that Lake ...