Oregon officials said the Chinook salmon population would be restored in ten years. With Coquille leadership, they did it in three. This story originally appeared on Underscore Native News. After a ...

During the summer, Great Lakes king salmon are denizens of the deep, chowing down on pelagic alewives and other baitfish in cool water. But as the spawning urge kicks in during August and September, ...

Warm water and late salmon runs delayed fall fishing along the Columbia River. Backtrolling Kwikfish lures and flat-lining Wee Warts proved consistently effective. Anglers share stories that preserve ...

As fishermen in hundreds of small boats hauled in one netful after another, the fat, red-flanked fish made the shallow water boil. Working two men in a boat round the clock, the fishermen collected as ...

Today we're trolling for salmon in Lake Ontario: one lead core line, one planer board, and one jet diver. We're using the American Smelt and a Viper Spoon with an artificial plastic, and running them ...

Charter fishing crews in California harbors are preparing for recreational salmon fishing to resume this weekend after a two-year shutdown. Fishing will only be allowed on certain dates and with ...

Today folks, we are targeting salmon, but the water is super murky where we are fishing. We are flat-lining the American Smelt which has rattles in it, and that will help the salmon find our lure, in ...

Here’s how fishing looks this week in the Northwest Lower Peninsula, Northeast Lower Peninsula and Upper Peninsula, according to the latest report from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

This story, “Making Up Salmon Water,” appeared in the May 1953 issue of Outdoor Life. A stiff northwester was giving Moosehead Lake the full treatment. Even the big cabin cruisers were standing on end ...

Here’s how fishing looks this week in the Northwest Lower Peninsula, Northeast Lower Peninsula and Upper Peninsula, according to the latest report from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

Blame my late start to the fall salmon season on high water temperature and late-arriving fish. Waiting for the river to cool down and salmon passage counts to build, I spent September afternoons ...

William "Captain Smitty" Smith stands for a portrait at Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay in 2024. (Loren Elliott / For The Times) After a two-year shutdown, fishing boats will fan out along the ...