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.

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, ...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game released its preliminary summary of the 2025 Upper Cook Inlet salmon fishery season. The report found that although numbers of all salmon species besides 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 ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — Earlier this summer, the record return of sockeye salmon on the Columbia River looked to be doomed by water too warm to pass. But the run got a well-timed break from the heat. The Fish ...

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 ...

Commercial fishers harvesting from Alaska’s Upper Cook Inlet saw an above average season in 2025, with a run of 12 million ...

Sockeye retention is now closed on the Columbia River downstream of the Highway 395 bridge at Pasco. The change, which went into effect Friday, happened because the allocation of sockeye for ...

If you've ever visited your local fishmonger to pick up a few cuts of salmon for dinner, you've probably noticed that this succulent fish comes in a surprising number of varieties. All salmon is ...