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For anyone who can't wait to satisfy their urge to fish, the Alaska Sports Fishing Association's annual Ice Fishing Jamboree is taking place this weekend at Jewel Lake Park.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7
A Mat-Su guide is facing a big fine and loss of his boat and guiding license after his second conviction in five years for violating fishing laws. Ray Blodgett was found guilty last week of letting clients use bait and multiple hooks in a salmon stream where they weren't allowed. Blodgett says he's innocent and "getting hosed" in the wake of flooding on Susitna River tributaries that changed the course of stream beds, reports The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman.
The Ruth Burnett Sport Fish Hatchery is alive and breathing -- finally.
In an effort to sustain commercial and recreational fishing for the next several decades, the United States this year will become the first country to impose catch limits for every species it manages, from Alaskan pollock to Caribbean queen conch.
JOHN SCHANDELMEIER
The cold temperatures of the past week have insured safe travel on all of the lakes in the Copper River Basin. And good ice means good fishing.
A longtime Kenai Peninsula fishing guide bilked more than $90,000 from clients who paid for fishing trips that he failed to provide in 2010 and 2011, according to Alaska Wildlife Troopers.
This Kenai Peninsula town's halibut fishing community is alarmed at a decision that could set catch limits at one fish per person.
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Zane Giles, with his dogs Annie and Anya, tested his new ice fishing tent Tuesday with a trip to Little Campbell Lake to try for Arctic char. A propane heater kept the fisherman and his companions warm.
The halibut charter catch in Southeast Alaska fell within allocation guidelines for the first time in seven years, a newly released analysis shows.
A former commissioner for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game who resigned after pleading guilty to DUI is seeking to become a contract fisheries analyst for Kodiak Island.
Federal officials are asking the North Pacific Fishery Management Council to re-examine a halibut catch-sharing plan for waters off Southcentral and Southeast Alaska.
ALASKA FISHING REPORT
Salmon fishing is petering out, although chums, pinks and silvers are still spawning in the rivers. The guys at Mountain View Sports Center in Anchorage report that rainbow fishing in the Mat-Su has been good lately. Water conditions in the Parks Highway streams are excellent. They suggest trying small sculpins or egg patterns. We would add that this time of year you always want to have a variety of flesh flies -- pink, ginger, off-white -- with you as well.
Jack Yakura of Middleburg, Pa., caught the biggest fish in the Valdez Silver Salmon Derby, and Annette Gutierrez of Albuquerque, N.M., landed the biggest flatfish in the Valdez Halibut Derby, and those fish didn't represent their biggest hauls.
Kenai Peninsula commercial fishermen and sport anglers have often had disputes about who should have the right to catch salmon. These days, the focus is on another valuable fish: halibut.
Federal fisheries managers should weigh the economic impact before approving a Pacific halibut allocation plan that could reduce the number of fish caught by sport anglers on charter boats, an Alaska lawmaker said Thursday.
ALASKA FISHING REPORT
The Kenai River is fishing great right now. Try using beads and flesh patterns for rainbows and dollies. The upper is fishing particularly well for trout. Coho are still being caught in the lower Kenai River. Anglers fishing for silvers are having the best success using plugs.
Alaska Wildlife Troopers in the Juneau area are cracking down on illegal snagging.
Testing is again showing very low levels of hydrocarbons in the Kenai River.
For the second year in a row Carl Baker and all the lunch bunch at the Palmer Senior Center a special treat earlier this month thanks to Northern District Setnetters Association that set aside portions of two days catch for the seniors at the Palmer Center.
ALASKA FISHING REPORT
Trout fishing is improving everywhere -- at least in any stream or river that isn't too high or too muddy. As a rule, streams that come out of lakes aren't susceptible to big fluctuations like the streams without lakes upstream.
ALASKA FISHING REPORT
Salmon fishing winds down as trout picks up
Salmon fishing is petering out, although chums, pinks and silvers are still spawning in the rivers. The guys at Mountain View Sports Center in Anchorage report that rainbow fishing in the Mat-Su has been good lately. Water conditions in the Parks Highway streams are excellent. They suggest trying small sculpins or egg patterns. We would add that this time of year you always want to have a variety of flesh flies -- pink, ginger, off-white -- with you as well.
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