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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sockeye populations in the Baker River system had declined to just 99 returning fish in the mid-1980s, bringing the species ...

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 ...

One of the keys to deciding where you’ll fish for summer kings or sockeye is by examining the fish counts at the dams. This will give you a snapshot of how many fish are in a certain area, where ...

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.

A record number of sockeye have returned to Skagit Bay and the Skagit river on their annual spawning migration, according to ...

The summer salmon fishing season in local waters is gaining momentum, with improving chinook catches in Tulalip and Elliott bays and south Puget Sound, a short sockeye season in Lake Washington today ...