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 ...

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.

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

Sports; Outdoors; Sockeye fishing opens, salmon limits raised in Columbia above Priest Rapids Dam Wed., July 6, 2016 A summer chinook dwarfs sockeye salmon in a cooler. (Rich Landers ...

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 ...

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 ...

A record run of sockeye in the Columbia River means a brisk start to sales for the 18-year-old Yakama tribe member who spends summers here selling fish caught by his family.

Volunteers fish for sockeye salmon during a tracking study on the Columbia River at the mouth of the Yakima River on Friday, June 26, 2020 in Richland, Wash. Evan Abell / Yakima Herald-Republic; ...