Sad report out of Glacier Bay National Park in Southeast Alaska, where a small fishing boat capsized, resulting in the drownings of a father and son. Here’s the Alaska Dispatch News with more: Two people died and four more were rescued...
Happy Memorial Day. It’s a big sports holiday for me – my hockey team opens the Stanley Cup Final and my basketball team rallied to get to Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals – but I’ll take some...
Our correspondent Scott Haugen filed this report for Outdoor Life on what could be a record-setting brown bear. Here’s Scott with more: Friday the 13th. If you’re superstitious, you likely wouldn’t spend that day perched atop the tundra in Alaska, bowhunting brown bear....
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,...
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...