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 ...

A Northern Kenai Fishing Report published by the State Department of Fish and Game on Thursday says sockeye salmon fishing has slowed, but some silvers are being caught. Freshwater Fishing The ...

When fishing alone, it’s one hand on the rod and one hand on a walleye-size net, keeping my rod tip in the water to prevent the sockeye from thrashing on the surface.

Cowlitz River this week saw strong returns at the Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery, with hundreds of Chinook and steelhead collected ...

Sockeye salmon run the 82-mile stretch of the Kenai River to Skilak Lake and upstream the final 17 miles to Kenai Lake. Sockeye mainly return to rivers whose headwaters are lakes.

Emergency Order 2-RS-1-29-25 opens the Russian River Sanctuary Area to sport fishing for sockeye salmon. Emergency Order 2-RS-1-26-25 increases the bag and possession limits for sockeye salmon, 16 ...

Fishing columnist Dennis Dauble says Sockeye salmon numbers in the Columbia River in Washington are lower in 2023 but worth the patience.

It’s a big weekend at the Ballard Locks as sockeye salmon return as part of their journey upstream to spawn in Lake Washington.

Longtime Lake Wenatchee angler Dave Graybill is a sockeye fishing veteran. When the weather cooperates, he fishes the big lake for the great-eating salmon most every day.

The sockeye salmon harvest guideline in the river fishery will be 25% of the state share. The remaining 75% will be reserved for Baker Lake fishing. Current river sport share is about 4,000 sockeye.

Sockeye retention is now closed on the Columbia River downstream of the Highway 395 bridge at Pasco.