If you have ever fished Lake Wenatchee for sockeye salmon, you know there can be some challenges in doing so. First, you have to get your boat into the water. The only public boat launch is available ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced this week it is opening the sockeye season on Lake Wenatchee starting on July 26 for a season that is expected to run until Aug. 31. The daily ...

One of the state's most anticipated terminal salmon fisheries will begin early this Saturday morning, when hundreds of boat fishermen from around the state will converge on Lake Wenatchee hoping to ...

The Everett Steelhead and Salmon Club will teach river fishing classes on Aug. 11, Aug. 18 and Aug. 25 from 7-9 p.m. at the Floral Hall in Everett’s Forest Park. The classes will focus on river ...

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 ...

You won’t catch 30-pound chinook, certainly, but a couple of ongoing small-salmon fisheries are an excellent bet to bend a rod and put a fish or two on the barbecue this weekend. Anglers on the ...

Sockeye salmon are returning to the Columbia River at numbers far higher than predicted by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, bringing expanded fishing opportunities this summer.

Mindi Eleazer, the wife of fishing guide Matt Eleazer, with a fine spring Chinook salmon she took from the Columbia River. (Photo courtesy of East Fork Outfitters) Anglers in Washington can expect ...