Salmon are charging up the Columbia River at near-record rates this summer. • Sockeye forecast has been increased from 394,000 to 450,000, which would be the third-largest return to the mouth of the ...

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 ...

Great news! You can gather your gear, head up to Baker Lake tomorrow morning and catch a sockeye. You can, that is, if you’re able to find one of the seven fish trucked to the big lake from the Baker ...

It’s 10 o’clock on a fine morning in late June, the second week of summer sockeye season in the Hanford Reach. I arrive at the Snyder Street launch to find the parking lot half full. Two boats are ...

Baker Lake sockeye anglers are scratching a little harder for fish so far this season than in 2012, and that probably means predictions for a somewhat smaller run are proving accurate. “Historically, ...

Five-hundred of the kokanee that were flushed out of Green Peter Reservoir in the 2023 "deep drawdown" have returned as ...

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 ...

“A total of 45.32 million sockeye salmon (with a range of 31.12 million to 59.52 million) are expected to return to Bristol ...

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 ...

A northern Kenai fishing report published by the State Department of Fish and Game on Friday says sockeye fishing on the Kenai River is “exceptional.” Freshwater fishing The Russian River and Russian ...

The Lake Washington sockeye run is stumbling out of the starting blocks. So far, only 5,505 sockeye have been counted at the Ballard Locks from June 12 through yesterday, compared to 28,829 during the ...