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

The Baker River salmon run reached a historic milestone this year due to efforts from the tribe, state wildlife officials and ...

A record number of juvenile fish — 1.5 million — passed through the Baker Lake and Lake Shannon Floating Surface Collectors ...

A record number of sockeye salmon returned to the Skagit River system this year, marking a major milestone in one of ...

The Board of Fisheries has approved an action plan to help conserve the Nushagak River’s king salmon runs, which have declined sharply in recent years even as huge sockeye returns to the district have ...

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 ...

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.

Sockeye salmon come in two forms here in the Northwest. Well, they come in four forms if you count buying a fresh fillet or some canned sockeye at the market. We won’t count those. No, today, and I ...

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, ...

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.

Too early for sure. I REALLY wanted to stay in bed, but even after four days of the same early morning wake-up call, I rolled out because I knew what awaited in the hours ahead. My son Kyle and I ...