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 ...

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 ...

YAKIMA, Wash. - The first time I ever heard of sockeye salmon was in the mid-1980s, on an Alaska trip with a friend to do some salmon fishing. As we were driving to Soldotna to get to the portion of ...

Anglers might face low sockeye catch rates due to lower run size and heavy weeds. Success hinges on locating river 'sweet spots' shaped by current and terrain shifts. Dam operations affect river ...

If you’ve never seen a fish bite a bare hook, you probably have never fished in Lake Wenatchee for sockeye salmon. Luckily, the salmon will readily bite a bare hook, because if they didn’t it would ...

SEATTLE -- It's been so long since enough sockeye salmon returned to allow a Lake Washington fishing season that many anglers are reluctant to even talk about it. But some are quietly getting their ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...