Editor’s Note: Alan Liere is on vacation, so he wrote about sockeye fishing instead of his weekly fish-hunt report. In July, I hope to fish again for sockeye salmon at the mouth of the Okanogan River ...

BREWSTER, Wash. – The rod doubles over and three men race to separate positions in the confined space of a boat. Shouted instructions mix with adrenaline. It’s on. Finally, an aqua-green flash ...

Anglers may need to seek new water to work lures with this year’s change in water condition. Courtesy DD Dauble It’s high noon and discharge at Priest Rapids Dam is 100,000 cubic feet per second. I ...

There are times and places where all the ingredients to a great fishing experience come together. I was recently invited to fish for sockeye salmon on the Columbia River in Washington. The prospects ...

So successful are the Okanagan sockeye that they now comprise more than 80 percent of all sockeye on the Columbia, eclipsing the Wenatchee River run, which used to comprise 43 percent of the ...

In the fishing towns of northern Washington State and coastal Alaska, the sockeye salmon is more than just a fish. It is a recurring miracle, a gift of God, the source of steady jobs, paid-up bills, ...

The first time I ever heard of sockeye salmon was in the mid-1980s. A friend and I had traveled up to Alaska to do some salmon fishing and as we were driving to Soldotna to get to the portion of the ...