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 ...

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 ...

YAKIMA, Wash. - Last summer, much to the delight of anglers all over Eastern Washington, more than 500,000 sockeye salmon returned to the upper Columbia River. The fishing was fantastic and many ...

This is the peak season around the region for fly fishermen. All local rivers are fishing well. Dry/droppers, nymph rigs and Euro rigs are all producing. Caddis flies are good in the afternoons and ...

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 ...

Summer is here, and attention has turned to warm water lakes and ponds, as well as the Columbia River. Shad fishing continues to produce on the Columbia and Pikeminnow fishing has been excellent. The ...

There are times and places where all the ingredients to a great fishing experience come together. I was recently invited to fish for sockeye salmon on the Columbia River in Washington. The prospects ...

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, ...