Petersburg mayor Mark Jensen penned an excellent column in the Juneau Empire about the negative and possibly tragic impact that Canadian mining companies can have around Southeast Alaska. Here’s a sample of what Jensen wrote: Alaskans are being asked to essentially...
I remember being fired up to watch the 2000 George Clooney-Mark Wahlberg/John C. Reilly etc. fishing flick, The Perfect Storm when it first came out. I figured, “How you could mess up a movie with Clooney barking orders at his...
Ducks Unlimited released the 2016 waterfowl forecast Here’s DU’s projections for the Pacific Flyway: The majority of Pacific Flyway waterfowl are raised on the prairies of the United States and Canada, northwestern Canada, Alaska, and other western states. In southern...
This story might be hard to read but it’s a heartwarming one. Per CNN, Navy veteran Connie Willhite, 68, was nearing the end battling colon cancer, but he wished for one more opportunity to go fishing. Here’s CNN with more: The...
The following appears in the September issue of Alaska Sporting Journal: BY CHRIS COCOLES It’s as big a rite of passage for duck hunters as dusting off decoys, flooding fields and training dogs to retrieve downed birds from the swampy muck...
Our friends at Jake’s Nushagak Salmon Camp sent this update: Thank You Very Much We would like to just say thank you to all our guests from this 2016 season. Fishing on the river was great. We are looking forward...
Sorry for just posting this now (I was out of the office for a few days around the Labor Day weekend!). The following press release is courtesy of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game: Waterfowl hunting season opened on September...
BY RANDY WELLS As a charter boat skipper, there is nothing that puts huge smiles on anglers’ faces like the aggressive bite and fight of silversalmon. Each July, coho flood into the Gulf of Alaska and make their way to...