YAKIMA, Wash. - The first time I ever heard of sockeye salmon was in the mid-1980s, on an Alaska trip with a friend to do some salmon fishing. As we were driving to Soldotna to get to the portion of ...

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 ...

Sockeye salmon fishing can be as simple as anchoring up along the shoreline, put two rods out and waiting for a strike. Dennis Dauble Boats all along the shoreline, but no nets out. Magpies squawk in ...

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 ...

The number one “must” for catching Brewster Pool sockeye is to keep your leader short between the dodger and the lure. Imparting action onto a lure is hard to do at slow speeds, and the short and ...

The Lake Washington sockeye watch has started. From Sunday through Tuesday, 1,477 sockeye were counted at the Ballard Locks, compared to 5,207 at the same time last year. Fish managers say the low ...

Great news! You can gather your gear, head up to Baker Lake tomorrow morning and catch a sockeye. You can, that is, if you’re able to find one of the seven fish trucked to the big lake from the Baker ...

The Lake Washington sockeye run is stumbling out of the starting blocks. So far, only 5,505 sockeye have been counted at the Ballard Locks from June 12 through yesterday, compared to 28,829 during the ...

Boats all along the shoreline, but no nets out. Magpies squawk in the alders. A tennis shoe floats by. Plastic bottles, bundles of dried sedge, and tumbleweeds join the parade. About the only thing ...

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, ...