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 rig, ...

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 River ...

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 ...

Too early for sure. I REALLY wanted to stay in bed, but even after four days of the same early morning wake-up call, I rolled out because I knew what awaited in the hours ahead. My son Kyle and I ...

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 ...

In the fishing towns of northern Washington State and coastal Alaska, the sockeye salmon is more than just a fish. It is a recurring miracle, a gift of God, the source of steady jobs, paid-up bills, ...

COOPER LANDING — Sockeye salmon are running on the Kenai Peninsula and fishermen are taking note. Crowds flooded the Russian and Kenai Rivers over the past week as the Russian reached its early-run ...

The Skagit River from the Highway 536 bridge in Mount Vernon to the Dalles Bridge in Concrete will be open to sockeye salmon fishing from June 16 to July 15. A limit of four sockeye salmon with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s 10 o’clock on a fine morning in late June, the second week of summer sockeye season in the Hanford Reach. I arrive at the ...

Anglers may need to seek new water to work lures with this year’s change in water condition. Courtesy DD Dauble It’s high noon and discharge at Priest Rapids Dam is 100,000 cubic feet per second. I ...