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, ...

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 ...

Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, Wash. Staff Report, Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, Wash. Jul. 5—OLYMPIA — Sockeye fishing will open from the Astoria-Megler Bridge on the lower river to the ...

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, ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced this week it is opening the sockeye season on Lake Wenatchee starting on July 26 for a season that is expected to run until Aug. 31. The daily ...

There were high hopes for Lake Washington sockeye this summer, but the return hit a stumbling block and never lived up to expectations. State and tribal fisheries managers had forecast a return of 166 ...

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 ...

A surprise uptick of summer chinook and sockeye salmon at Bonneville Dam prompted Oregon and Washington to reopen some July chinook fishing from the dam to Astoria and expand sockeye retention ...

They are as Seattle as the Space Needle. But Lake Washington sockeye, once the largest run of sockeye in the Lower 48, are failing. The smallest run on record returned to the Cedar River in 2020, a ...

As King County’s Lake Washington Watershed coordinator from 1996 to 2000, I take exception to the unquestioned faith in hatcheries that the director of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife ...