One secret to catching sockeye is putting your lure in the right place. What I call the sweet spot or a place in the river ...

It’s curtains for the sockeye salmon season on the Hanford Reach and the Upper Columbia River. Anglers have met the maximum recreational harvest allocation for sockeye in that part of the Columbia ...

Come along on my first sockeye fishing adventure of the season in Brewster, Washington! The July run is on fire, and the ...

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 ...

A chinook salmon, second from the bottom, swims with sockeye salmon at the Bonneville Dam fish-counting window on the Columbia River in Washington in 2012.

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 ...

IDAHO, USA — The Idaho Department of Fish and Game is taking steps to protect sockeye salmon, an endangered species, from the extreme heat. More than a hundred fish are now at the Eagle Hatchery ...

Chadwick was my fishing guide in early August while chasing sockeye salmon on the Kenai River. Sockeye salmon are widely considered the tastiest of Alaska’s five salmon species; the first ...

HOODSPORT — Sockeye salmon, missing from the Skokomish River for at least 90 years, will get a lift — literally — as Tacoma Public Utilities and the Skokomish Tribe work together to restore ...