My fishing guide, Shiloh Patterson, vividly remembers the first time he hooked a king salmon back in 1997. The fight lasted only 10 seconds before his line snapped, but it was all he could talk about ...

The Upper Klamath River is also part of restoration work. The salmon's return inspires biologists to continue their efforts in the upper basin. Bob Wick, Bureau of Land Management Oregon and ...

Spring chinook salmon passage at Bonneville Dam is only at about 25 percent of the 10-year average for the date. (RICK BOWMER/Associated Press) The spring season for spring Chinook salmon and hatchery ...

SOMES BAR, Calif. — Over the last month, salmon have gathered in clear pools in the Salmon River as they have returned to their spawning grounds. This undammed river, a tributary of the Klamath River ...

Despite the closure of salmon fishing in California river and ocean waters in 2023 and 2024, the number of Fall Chinook Salmon returning to both the Sacramento and Klamath River Basins was well below ...

Today we're on the shoreline of the Fraser River in British Columbia. I've never fished for salmon on the Fraser River before ...

For the second year in a row, a record-breaking number of Chinook Salmon have returned to the Mokelumne River — the 95-mile waterway that runs through Northern California — to spawn, signaling hope ...

Sunlight flickered through bowing branches. As the sun hit moss-covered cliffs, steam rose that was so thick I thought it was coming from a campfire. Yellow leaves glowed over the hillside. To my ...