“NOAA and the trawl fleet love to focus on the percentage of the salmon bycatch that originates in Alaska because it hides the actual massive number of wasted individual fish, which dwarfs the number allowed to be harvested by traditional users...
At the Nick Dudiak Fishing Lagoon, the youth-only fishery will occur all day on June 4 from 12:01 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. in the posted youth-only sport fishing area across from the entrance to the lagoon....
Rainbow fishing will improve as water levels recede. Many of our streams are high and muddy as snowpack melts and water clarity improves so will the fishing. Be patient, the forecast looks like more high water for the next few days....
The inside waters of Southeast Alaska are currently closed to king salmon retention until June 15. Opportunities to harvest king salmon will be available in terminal harvest areas beginning in June. On June 15th, the majority of the Ketchikan area (District...
Lake fishing for rainbow trout, Arctic char, Arctic grayling, and land locked salmon should be good to excellent. Try fishing with dry or wet flies such as an egg sucking leech, bead head nymph, or mosquito pattern; small spoons and spinners...
For the Ninilchik River, cured salmon roe clusters suspended under a bobber will be the most effective presentation.
For Anchor River and Deep Creek, fishing with spinners, flies, jigs, spoons, and plugs will all work. Make sure your gear is close to...
There are a handful of sockeye salmon that have been caught in the Buskin so far but nothing past the weir. It sounds like it’s off to a slow start so far.
A few sockeyes have been counted through the Litnik weir but fishing...
Chris Milles of Melbourne, Florida was at the top of the leader board with a 150.0-pound halibut. Stuart Wygant of North Pole, Alaska is currently second place in the overall derby with a 110.8-pound halibut and Maxwell Garchow of Fort Wainwright, Alaska is...
