Salmon are charging up the Columbia River at near-record rates this summer. • Sockeye forecast has been increased from 394,000 to 450,000, which would be the third-largest return to the mouth of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SEATTLE -- It's been so long since enough sockeye salmon returned to allow a Lake Washington fishing season that many anglers are reluctant to even talk about it. But some are quietly getting their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...