Good read in the Alaska Dispatch News, as the Copper River’s sockeye season last week started with kind of a thud: The first opener produced a catch of 25,000 sockeye and about 1,500 kings. “It was pretty slow to start. Small fish,...
Photo by Paul Atkins The U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Federal Subsistence Management Program sent out the following press release that will surely not be a popular decision with sport hunters in Northwest Alaska. Here’s...
The following was originally featured in the February 2016 issue of Alaska Sporting Journal. A Ketchikan Deer Hunter’s Harrowing Fall From A Cliff BY JEFF LUND Once a tooth fragment falls out of the hole in his gums, doctors can take the...
The following interview appears in the May issue of Alaska Sporting Journal: BY CHRIS COCOLES It was a classic mentor/rookie moment for Sean Dwyer. In the dangerous world of commercial crab fishing off the coast of Alaska, Dwyer’s debut...
Good stuff from the Alaska Dispatch News commemorating a world-record fish caught in Alaskan waters. Les loved to fish, but that’s not the same as a love of big fish. He was just out there to have fun, and honestly, he...
The following story appears in the May issue of Alaska Sporting Journal BY CHRIS COCOLES About the only thing Emily Riedel has in common with one Francis Albert Sinatra: they both have/had quite the singing pipes. Sinatra once famously crooned about...
Ever had one of those decisions where you just wanted to flip a coin or play rock-paper scissors to decide? Check out this story of how a teenage Alaskan decided what path he wanted to take to college: From Deadspin via...
What’s the old saying? Music calms the savage beast. Tell that to this Alaskan moose. From the Alaska Dispatch: On May 4, Britta Schroeder was drifting off to sleep when her wind chimes began to ring. It’s windy in Healy, the...
