If you're shopping for sockeye salmon at Whole Foods, it might be sourced from an area you wouldn't expect. Here's what you ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Sockeye salmon fishing can be as simple as anchoring up along the shoreline, put two rods out and waiting for a strike. Dennis Dauble Boats all along the shoreline, but no nets out. Magpies squawk in ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

IDAHO, USA — More sockeye have returned to the Sawtooth Basin, according to Idaho Fish and Game (IDFG). They have counted 1, 295 through July 26 at the Lower Granite Dam. The 10-year average crossing ...

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Construction on a once-abandoned sockeye fish hatchery project in eastern Idaho intended to bolster Idaho’s breeding program is back on schedule, Idaho Fish and Game officials ...