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 ...

The Kasilof River is closed to all king salmon fishing, including catch and release or for hatchery salmon. More than 1 million sockeye have been counted on the river, and the report says sockeye ...

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 ...

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

A surprise uptick of summer chinook and sockeye salmon at Bonneville Dam prompted Oregon and Washington to reopen some July chinook fishing from the dam to Astoria and expand sockeye retention ...

Each year the local fishing industry scoops up some 6,000,000 of the 2-ft.-long, silver-blue sockeye, which account for 20% of the area’s $50 million salmon catch and fetch higher prices than ...

Here at the confluence of the Okanogan and Columbia rivers, tens of thousands of sockeye and chinook salmon stage themselves every summer in an underwater base camp, waiting to make a final push ...

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.

A decreased forecast for returns of sockeye salmon has Washington fishery managers moving to limit angling for them in the Upper Columbia River starting on Monday.

The final plan, approved by the board on Sunday, includes three triggers to open up fishing in the district: When the Wood River’s sockeye escapement reaches 10% of the total projected run, when ...

“It’s been fantastic and I don’t see it slowing down,” said fishing guide Kyle Jones, who’s been targeting the upper Columbia since July 7. “Both sockeye and summer chinook have been good.