It’s high noon and discharge at Priest Rapids Dam is 100,000 cubic feet per second. I drop my anchor in 10 feet of water and put two rods out. Each is baited with a red prawn on a double-hook rig, ...
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 ...
The number one “must” for catching Brewster Pool sockeye is to keep your leader short between the dodger and the lure. Imparting action onto a lure is hard to do at slow speeds, and the short and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Five-hundred of the kokanee that were flushed out of Green Peter Reservoir in the 2023 "deep drawdown" have returned as ...
Neil Kershaw was out on the Fraser River this week where a major surge in returning sockeye salmon has fishers, retailers, guides, conservation and advocates marvelling at the renewal of opportunity.
British Columbia fishing guide Dean Werk says he was getting calls last week from keen anglers wondering if this would be their year. "Do you think there's going to be a salmon opening, Dean?" Now ...