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Photos: Cordova fishing fleet brings in season-opener fish
Rainy-day fishing brings in the season's first Copper River king and red salmon.
Fishing
It's 'fish on' at Ship Creek as the season's first kings arrive
Only a few chinooks have been hooked so far, but the run should pick up in time in time for next month's king salmon derby.
Homer launches halibut derby, hopeful of a return to hefty winners
Anglers fishing aboard Homer charter boats face a number of restrictions — including an annual limit of four halibut.
Fat white king salmon earns Homer angler $53,000
Ron Johnson's 25.65-pound fish was just big enough to edge Gino Del Frate and earn him a yummy dinner and fat winner's check. He was back out on the water Tuesday, trolling for more kings.
Alaska asking US Supreme Court to overturn decision giving Cook Inlet salmon management to feds
The state is asking the nation's highest court to consider whether the state or federal governments should manage the Southcentral Alaska fishery.
A slow year for dipnetters: Fish harvest on the Kenai, Kasilof rivers down slightly in 2016
If you thought dipnetting was slow on the Kenai River late year, the preliminary harvest numbers seem to prove it.
Alaska leads the nation again in commercial fisheries volume, value
Three Alaska ports led the way for fish landings in the U.S. in 2015, a new federal report shows.
North Pole angler captures Homer halibut derby with 252-pounder
The big flatfish caught last month earned Austin Nelson $15,378. For the third time in four years, the winner weighed less than 300 pounds.
Video: Hunting caribou by bike
Punk anarchists, subsistence caribou hunting and bikepacking may seem like an unlikely combination, but as Birch Block, one of the founders of Anchorages Off The Chain Bicycle Collective says, Were not your typical hunting party.
Snagged silver salmon worth $15,000 to Valdez angler
Top three finishers in Valdez Silver Salmon Derby all caught their hefty coho from shore.
For a perfect catch in Seattle, fishmongers go for the halibut
Sure, salmon are sleeker and more beautiful. But halibut, "a big floppy Frisbee," is without equal when it takes off to fly.
Alaska's pink salmon record broken twice in 2-day span on Kenai River
A California man caught a huge pink salmon Monday that broke a 42-year-old Alaska record, only to see his record broken the next day by a Nevada fisherman.
Alaska's amazing rainbow connection
Anglers seeking big surprises and some of the largest, meanest rainbow trout on Earth need look no farther than the trout streams of Alaska.
20 years after dad's victory, Anchorage man wins Seward Silver Salmon Derby
In 1996, Otto Hanson won the Seward Silver Salmon Derby. This year, his son Mike won it -- and Otto caught a tagged fish worth two Alaska Airline tickets.
With Sunday deadline nearing, new leader emerges in Seward Silver Salmon Derby
Mike Hanson of Anchorage grabbed the derby lead with a 16.22-pound silver.
Hefty 16.22-pound silver is now the fish to beat in Seward derby
The derby ends on Sunday.
They came to Alaska for the fishing, but this king salmon got way too cozy
That moment when a king salmon knocks two people over and breaks a fishing rod.
Late or lame? On brink of derby, Seward stresses about silver salmon run
The 61st edition of Seward Silver Salmon Derby begins Saturday. Will the most anticipated guests arrive?
Bait banned for anglers seeking Little Su silver salmon
Alaska biologists are worried that a weak early run may persist, putting their escapement goal in jeopardy.
Soldotna man's invention helps ensure released rockfish survive
Too often, barotrauma claims yelloweye, quillback and other Alaska rockfish pulled from the depths, leaving them with bulging eyes, the stomach protruding out the mouth and skin stretched tight.