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, ...

The first time I ever heard of sockeye salmon was in the mid-1980s. A friend and I had traveled up to Alaska to do some salmon fishing and as we were driving to Soldotna to get to the portion of the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A northern Kenai fishing report published by the State Department of Fish and Game on Thursday says that sockeye have arrived in each of the local rivers — there are lots of opportunity for good ...

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

A decreased forecast for returns of sockeye salmon has Washington fishery managers moving to limit angling for them in the Upper Columbia River starting on Monday. The Washington Department of Fish ...