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Rainbow trout fishing heats up at Cheney Lake

Michelle Lee, right, and her husband Patrick Lee watch their lines as 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, over 600 large rainbow trout were released earlier this month. Michelle pulled in nice rainbow trout approximately 13-14 inches long using a meal worm as bait dangling beneath a bobber.

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.

PHOTO GALLERY

First fish

Chef Patrick Hoogerhyde and Billy Green with the King and Sockeye salmon in the Bridge Restaurant. Billy Green, Vice President of Production for Copper River Seafoods, delivered the first Copper River salmon of the season to chef/owners Patrick Hoogerhyde an Al Levinson of Bridge Restaurant on Friday morning May 18, 2012. A 30 pound king salmon caught by Copper River Seafoods partner Pip Fillingham and a 7 pound sockeye were the first fish delivered and will be served at dinner service in the evening.

The first Copper River salmon were flown to Anchorage and Seattle Friday, May 18, 2012.

Story: Alaska restaurant battles Seattle for first fish

Fishing Fun

Carolyn Tate of the Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game assists young anglers at the Great Alaska Sportsman Show Friday March 30, 2012 at Ben Boeke Ice Arena. Students from the Anchorage School District life skills programs were treated to fishing and exhibits on animals and fish Friday morning prior to public opening courtesy of the show, Safari Club International - Alaska Chapter, the Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game and the school district.

Life skills students test the trout pond waters at the Great Alaska Sportsman Show Friday March 30, 2012 at Ben Boeke Ice Arena.

Fish Creek Dipnetting

Salmon dipnet fishing at Fish Creek off of Knik-Goose Bay Road in the valley on Friday, July 29, 2011.

Salmon dipnetting at Fish Creek in the Valley.

Kenai River Dipnetting 2011

A dipper works on another fish pulled from the Kenai River Monday, July 18, 2011. An astonishing 230,600 salmon - nearly all sockeyes - on Sunday passed through the sonar counter 19 miles upstream from the mouth.

Kenai River dipnetters hit the mother lode over the third weekend of July, 2011.

Nice catch

Nice Catch: Trout

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Nice Catch: Salmon

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Nice Catch: Halibut

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Nice Catch: Other

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Reader-submitted

Alaska cabins

Share photos of what you love most about your cabin; bonus for any outhouses that make it into your submissions.

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Reader-submitted: 2012 Bicycling

Location: Anchorage, 04/18/2011 Three-wheeling Bud!

Share photos of your races, rides, tricks or even your favorite bike.

Share your biking photos

READER-SUBMITTED

Alaska birds

Alaska is home to hundreds of different migrating bird species and readers have posted hundreds of their bird-watching finds. Share your photos.

RSVP: May 2012

Location: Bagram, Afghanistan, 05/01/2012 CW2 Clinton K. Brown III of the Alaska Army National Guard with President Obama 1 May 2012 in Bagram, Afghanistan

Submit your photos from community projects and social occasions around town in May, 2012.

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Reader-submitted: Alaska Gardens 2012

Location: 05/21/2012, Indian The beginning of summer!

Alaska-themed Tattoos

Reader submitted: Mom and me

Reader submitted: Alaska dogs

Reader-submitted: 2012 High School Grad

Alaska Spring 2012:Reader-submitted

Snowmachines

2012 Bear sightings: Reader-submitted

Reader submitted: 2012 Aurora Borealis

RSVP: April 2012

RSVP March 2012

Reader submitted: 2012 Iditarod

Reader submitted: Fur Rondy 2012

Moose sightings

Reader-submitted: 2012 UAA Grad

2011/12 Alaska winter

RSVP: February 2012

RSVP: January - 2012

Cordova snowstorm

January Valdez snowstorm

Frosty Alaskans

Slideshows

Alaska-based soldiers headed for Afghanistan

Brigade commander Col. Morris Goins addresses his troops and guests at a U.S. Army Alaska deployment ceremony for the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division Tuesday morning November 29, 2011 at Sullivan Arena. The 3,500-soldier brigade will be departing for Afghanistan on a series of flights in November and December.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

Food Bank of Alaska Thanksgiving Blessing

The Food Bank of Alaska Thanksgiving Blessing project is a community-wide effort to provide turkeys and all the fixings to everyone in need on one day, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011, from seven locations and is expected to provide enough food to feed around 7,000 families.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

Southcentral Power Project

Project manager Dustin Highers discusses the Southcentral Power Project located at the Chugach Electric Association headquarters off International Airport Road in Anchorage.

Touring the Goose Creek Correctional Center

Corrections commissioner Joe Schmidt describes the new Goose Creek Correctional Center slated to begin accepting prisoners in March of 2012 at Point MacKenzie.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

Operation Bulldog Bite