Alaska Outdoor Digest

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

Rockfish deep water release, limits coming for SE
As Board of Fish testimony continues in Sitka this week, the focus shifts to new rules for rockfish. The tasty bottom fish have received dramatically more fishing pressure in the past decade as tighter limits on charter halibut and salmon have sent fishermen looking for new options. Rockfish are... Read more
ADF&G predicts horrific Southeast king salmon runs for 2018
There’ll be nothing but coal in the stockings for Southeast Alaska salmon fishermen this year. Friday’s update on forecast king salmon runs is bad, really bad or just terrible, depending on the drainage.  This portends little or no fishing opportunity for SE anglers in 2018. Here’s the release from Alaska... Read more