The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced it will be opening sockeye fishing season at Baker Lake one week early this year. Due to the unprecedented number of returning sockeye salmon ...

Baker Lake will close to sockeye fishing on Sunday evening. The closure time for the fishery is one hour after official sunset. Anglers will no longer be allowed to catch the fish from the log-boom ...

A run of sockeye salmon. A record number of sockeye have returned to Skagit Bay and the Skagit river on their annual spawning migration, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

The Skagit River from the Highway 536 bridge in Mount Vernon to the Dalles Bridge in Concrete will be open to sockeye salmon fishing from June 16 to July 15. A limit of four sockeye salmon with a ...

WDFW reports 91,880 sockeye returned to Skagit and Baker River system in 2025. 1.5 million juvenile sockeye passed Baker Lake collectors in May 2025. PSE, Upper Skagit, Swinomish and WDFW expanded ...