Thursday morning in Anchorage Federal highway authorities and Alaska’s Department of Transportation finalized the agreement that will lay the groundwork for a highway bypassing Cooper Landing and critical habitat along a stretch of the Upper Kenai River. Federal Highways signed the record of decision (ROD) on the Sterling Highway... Read more
FISHING RESTRICTION: King Salmon Fishing Restrictions in Effect for the Marine Waters in Lower Cook Inlet (Homer) – In favor of protecting returning king salmon and increased fishing opportunities in the future, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) is implementing the following sport fishing regulation restriction in... Read more
The Anchor and Ninilchik Rivers and Deep Creek Drainages Closed to Sport Fishing The bad news on this year’s king salmon runs continues. Joining the MatSu Valley and Southeast Alaska, the popular streams on the Kenai Peninsula have been closed to king salmon fishing until late summer. Here’s the... Read more
Today several hundred Alaska-based service men and women are not thinking about deployment or war. They’re thinking about halibut and fishing, taking part in the annual Combat Fishing Tournament in Seward. So we thought it appropriate to look back at them and the history of this great event. This... Read more
Ship Creek: Celebrating The People’s Fishery
Fishing May 20, 2018
Editor’s note: As the first king salmon of the year are being caught from downtown Anchorage’s Ship Creek, and the fish and fishermen return in droves, it seems a perfect time to take a longer look at the most popular urban fishery in America. By Lee Leschper It was... Read more
First king of 2018 from Ship Creek
Fishing May 18, 2018
The Anchorage fishing season officially started Thursday night with the first king salmon caught from Ship Creek downtown. Dilly Vue caught the 19-pound hen Thursday night on a #6 blue Vibrax spinner. It will still be 10 days or two weeks before the main push of kings arrives in... Read more
Today: The King that may never be dethroned
Fishing May 17, 2018
Today in 1985, a Soldotna fisherman went fishing…and came home with the largest king salmon ever recorded on hook and line. Les Anderson wasn’t looking for a fishing record that may never be broken. He and a buddy were just getting an early start on the year’s Kenai king... Read more
Mom was a fisherman
Fishing May 13, 2018
BY LEE LESCHPER Most folks remember their mothers in the kitchen, or at the bedside when they were sick, or walking them to their first day of school. Not me. I remember Mom standing knee-deep in Little Bay at Rockport, on Texas’s Coastal Bend, hanging onto a screaming spinning... Read more
May 8 will be the last meeting of the Alaska Sport Fishing Association, 6:30 p.m. at the Anchorage Cabela’s. Join Jay Baumer, Anchorage, Prince William Sound, and North Gulf Coast Area Management Biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. This free event is open to the public and... Read more
Nine Alaska-outdoor-sporting organizations have signed an emergency petition to the Alaska Board of Fisheries seeking a delay in implementation of the recent actions (April 19, 2018) taken by the Prince William Sound (PWS) Regional Planning Team to amend hatchery-management plans to allow for an increase in the number of... Read more
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No bait or multiple hooks on Kenai until Aug. 15
Fishing Jul 29, 2020
