Summer in Soldotna, Alaska, is full of long days; July 1 is a 19-hour day and the 31st of August runs nearly 14 and a half hours. For fishing guide Andrew Chadwick, long days are just part of the job.

NPS Photo / T. Quinn. 2006. The world’s largest sockeye salmon run was larger than average this year, but the percentage of those fish that were harvested commercially was lower than normal, and ...

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, ...

Sockeye fishing took on a larger purpose for a handful of volunteers at the mouth of the Yakima River early on June 26. Rather than keep the salmon that have been relatively plentiful in the Columbia ...

Dive into the underwater world of Alaskan streams during summer, where sockeye salmon fill the waters with their striking red ...

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 ...

The Alaska Department of Fish & Game is predicting that more than 75 million sockeye will return to Bristol Bay this summer, topping the largest salmon run on record. The harvest of Bristol Bay ...

Tracking some young salmon has always had one hitch: the tiny fish are too small for the injectable tags researchers use to track fish as they move past hydropower dams. To make the tags smaller, ...