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 ...

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 ...

BREWSTER, Wash. – The rod doubles over and three men race to separate positions in the confined space of a boat. Shouted instructions mix with adrenaline. It’s on. Finally, an aqua-green flash ...

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, ...

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, ...

It's a testament to the tasty flavor of the sockeye, and the rarity of being able to catch these salmon in the middle of a metropolitan area: Richard Lundquist plans to be among the thousands trolling ...

Sockeye retention is now closed on the Columbia River downstream of the Highway 395 bridge at Pasco. The change, which went into effect Friday, happened because the allocation of sockeye for ...