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Snow shoveling is over. Outdoor projects delayed by winter are done. Finally, Alaska anglers can utter the words they've waited months and months to say. King salmon are back.
Where they're biting and where they aren't
Where they're biting and where they aren't
Where they're biting and where they aren't
Where they're biting and where they aren't
Where they're biting and where they aren't
Where they're biting and where they aren't
Where they're biting and where they aren't
Where they're biting and where they aren't
Where they're biting and where they aren't
Where they're biting and where they aren't
Where they're biting, where they aren't
Where they're biting and where they aren't
Where they're biting, where they aren't
Where they're biting, where they aren't
Where they're biting, where they aren't
Where they're biting, where they aren't
Where they're biting and where they aren't
Where they're biting and where they aren't
SOUTHCENTRAL FISHING REPORT
King salmon forecast promising despite cloudy, cold rivers
There's good and bad news for holiday-weekend fishing. First, the bad: It looks as though last winter's record snowfall has kept a few rivers colder than usual and off-color. The good news is that the first reports seem to forecast an average or better year for kings, and the halibut and trout fishing has been decent.
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King restrictions planned for Upper Inlet 3/29 2:44 PM
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Knik Arm silver fisheries to close on Aug. 27 8/25 4:46 PM
Cheney Lake rainbow trout fishing
Anglers try their luck catching rainbow trout at the recently stocked Cheney Lake in East Anchorage on Monday, 21, 2012. According the Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game website, Cheney Lake has been stocked twice this month, with over 600 large rainbow trout.
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The first Copper River salmon were flown to Anchorage and Seattle Friday, May 18, 2012.
Life skills students test the trout pond waters at the Great Alaska Sportsman Show Friday March 30, 2012 at Ben Boeke Ice Arena.
Now that you've gone through the hard work of catching that sweet salmon, make sure you prepare the right way.
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Comment period extended for halibut allocation plan
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Troopers crack down on salmon snaggers in Juneau area
Kenai River testing shows low pollution from boat motors
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Kenai man nets sizeable silver derby check
Big-money derby fish still at sea
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Record silver salmon landed in Southeast Alaska
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Chums, pinks crowd Parks Highway streams
Great-grandmother, 93, wins Valdez Silver Derby
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Kenai angler reels in monster silver salmon
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Chitina Subdistric announces personal use dipnet schedule
Youth-only sports fishery to open on the Homer Spit
Youth-only sports fishery to open at Fish Creek
Kenai River sockeye estimate scaled back but still huge
Federal fisheries managers taking comments on halibut plan
Surplus opens Fish Creek to dipnetting frenzy
Kenai red salmon fishing is great
Bait prohibited in Kenai River