If you have ever fished Lake Wenatchee for sockeye salmon, you know there can be some challenges in doing so. First, you have to get your boat into the water. The only public boat launch is available ...

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 ...

This has been a season when I hooked my first sockeye salmon in less time than it took to put a second rod out and one when I watched both rods for six hours without the planets aligning in my favor.

SOLDOTNA — A trio of anglers leaned on the edge of Jordan Carter’s boat in shallow water on the Kenai River last month, victoriously enjoying a cold beverage. Their ride with Carter, a local fishing ...

The first time I ever heard of sockeye salmon was in the mid-1980s. A friend and I had traveled up to Alaska to do some salmon fishing and as we were driving to Soldotna to get to the portion of the ...