Alaska Outdoor Digest

The source for important, timely news on hunting, fishing and the outdoors in Alaska.

Here’s your feel good fishing story of the week. A North Pole 7-year-old whipped all comers in the Quartz Lake Ice Derby with a trophy rainbow.  Ethan Vasquez was fishing with his father Kyle. Near the end of the derby both father and son hooked up with big rainbows.... Read more
The Great Alaska Sportsman Show continues through Sunday, April 2 at the Sullivan Arena.    The Show runs Thursday 4-9 p.m.; Friday 12 noon-8 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; and Sunday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission is $11 for adults, $3 for kids 2-12, free for kids under two, plus $6... Read more
The Kenai Chamber of Commerce is launching a new silver salmon derby on the river this September…making the most of a challenging season shaping up on the river. The derby will be the full length of the river and run Sept. 6-18 with adult and youth categories. All of... Read more
The real beginning of the outdoor year in Alaska cranks up Thursday for the 34th run of the Great Alaska Sportsman Show, this year March 30-April 2. More than 400 vendor booths will pack Sullivan Arena and both sides of Ben Boeke Ice Arena for the state’s largest trade... Read more
Chugach Electric will have two public meetings in April on the three hydroelectric dams the utility has proposed to build on the Snow River, an important tributary of the Kenai River. Those public meetings be April 17 at the Lakefront Anchorage Hotel and April 18 at the Moose Pass... Read more
Welcome to the newest outdoor media in Alaska. We are new on the scene, but building on over a half century of outdoor writing and publishing experience both in and beyond Alaska. Why? Because nobody else is doing it, well or at all. Traditional media never did a  very... Read more