As the 2017 Slam’n Salm’n Derby wraps at noon Sunday, Michael Tinker’s 36.2-pound king salmon was holding onto first place. It’s been a Derby with both lots of fish–more than 300 weighed in through Saturday–and big fish, with the top ten salmon all more than 31 pounds. This year’s... Read more
Fishing’s trickle before the flood
Fishing June 1, 2017
By Lee Leschper Call it a trickle. A trickle of early season fish that is, that could turn into a gusher any day. Most anywhere you’d consider fishing in Southcentral Alaska this week has shown a slowly increasing trickle of arriving salmon. From the Valley, south through Anchorage’s Ship... Read more
Ship Creek king fishery off to early start
Fishing May 16, 2017
If you slept in, you missed the first kings of the year in Ship Creek. The popular downtown Anchorage Ship Creek king salmon fishery normally does not hit full stride until early June. But several anglers have landed the first Ship kings of this year on Monday and Tuesday.... Read more
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