A 10-year-old Boise girl hooked the halibut of a lifetime while fishing in Alaska last weekend. And with a little help from “every hand on the ship” during the hour-long battle, Lily Cornish was able to bring her 333-pound, 84-inch barndoor of a...
S/O to our sales manager, Katie Higgins, for forwarding this pic of Washington resident Tom Bailey, who was fishing in Sitka Sound on June 12 and hauled in this monster salmon. Congrats, Tom! ...
In a moment that fans of SyFy Channel’s strangely successful franchise, Sharknado, will surely celebrate, weird creatures appear to be falling out of the sky in Fairbanks. So are these lampreys signs of the beginning of the end? The Alaska Department of...
From the Soldotna Chamber of Commerce Name: KWF’s Kenai River Festival Date: June 12, 2015 – June 14, 2015 Website: http://www.kenaiwatershed.org Event Description: Celebrate with Free, Family Fun for Everyone! The Kenai Watershed Forum is proud to present the annual Kenai River Festival as...
This news is a couple days old, but sheep hunters who relied on aerial spotting will not have that luxury, the Alaska Board of Game confirmed. From the Alaska Dispatch: At a town hall meeting with the board earlier this...
Alaska Sporting Journal correspondent Dennis Musgraves shared the following: I had a buddy of mine not make it back from Iraq, SSG Jason Butkus (died, Aug. 30, 2007). He loved fishing in Alaska. We used to go out during lunch and fish...
Randy Houston (with his dog, Pennie) started Purple Heart Anglers as a tribute to his older brother, Purple Heart recipient Jerry Houston, who passed away in 2011 (below). (PURPLE HEART ANGLERS) My dad, a proud Navy veteran, visited me this...
The following appears in the May issue of Alaska Sporting Journal: “If you look 100 years down the road, which, to a geologist, is not much time at all, and you think about how will people look at salmon,...
