Editor’s note: Andy Walgamott is the executive editor for Alaska Sporting Journal and the editor of our sister magazine, Northwest Sportsman. By Andy Walgamott Despite a wave of support from Northwest hunters, anglers and politicians on both sides of...
Fascinating report in The Alaska Dispatch analyzing the size of some of Alaska gamefish like salmon and halibut. Here’s reporter Sean Doogan: Small fish were also gumming up the top of many of the state’s silver salmon derby leader boards. And fisheries biologists...
This is a few days old, but a brown bear that mauled a hunter has been found dead close to the original attack site. From the Associated Press: The adult female bear was found Wednesday mortally wounded about 100 yards...
USA Today’s summer/fall fishing and hunting guide is out, and King Salmon, Alaska, made the list of nine top destinations to head to. Here’s some of the description: The name says it all — King Salmon, a small town in...
Photo by Thomas Quine/Flickr I’m a big history geek and love stories like this one in the Alaska Dispatch. Evidence has been unearthed linking this state’s dependence and reverence for salmon fishing dates back thousands of years: A study published...
Clark W. Dixon of Hazelhurts, Miss. has hosted the Sportsman Channel series The Syndicate. But Dixon faces multiple poaching violations in Alaska. Here’s the Associated Press: “The charges show five years of documented, illegal take of wildlife involving over two dozen big...
Hunters and anglers get lost in Alaska all the time, sometimes with tragic results. But a reported happy ending for 49-year-old Charlie Hull. From KTUU: “Every time [people] come back from moose camp there’s always a different story and that’s...
Here’s a great cause you can get behind: The website American Salmon Forest has an online petition. From the website: The Tongass is America’s salmon forest and one of the few places in the world where wild salmon and trout...
