How to Fish for Silvers in Saltwater
How to Fish for Silvers in Saltwater By Marcus Weiner Coho fishing in the saltwater can often be spectacular. I’ve been lucky to witness wide-open bites in many salty locales around the Great Read More...
The Kings of Southeast
Prime Time for Southeast Kings Story and photos by Terry W. Sheely There may be better places to catch king salmon than Southeast, but not as consistently, not from May into September, and Read More...
Kenai Kings
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly Story & Photos by Greg Brush The long faces in my boat told the story quite clearly: disappointment had set in, attitudes were faltering and my Read More...
After the Kings
Nushagak Silvers Story and photos by Marcus Weiner As I set foot on the shores of the Nushagak for the first time, my impression of the river is more intimate than I expected, Read More...
Bristol Bay King Salmon
Bristol Bay King Salmon Fishing: Story and photo by Marcus Weiner My fishing partner and I have spent the last three hours hooking one chrome sockeye salmon after another, landing one in five Read More...
Fishing with Zonk
Fishing with Larry Csonka Story by Melissa Norris You'll want to tune in on March 26th at 12:30 PM ET to NAPA's North to Alaska hosted by Larry Csonka and Audrey Bradshaw on the Read More...
Float and Egg Fishing for Silvers
By JD Richey I’ve said it a thousand times…silver salmon can drive you nuts! Especially since they often hold in slow, snaggy, “bassy” water that’s typically best covered by casting hardware like spinners, Read More...
5 Tricks for Finicky Coho
Five Wacky Tricks for Finicky Coho by Greg Brush If you’ve fished silvers before, you likely know that they can be one of the most unpredictable salmon around. These great gamefish can try Read More...
Pounding Pinks
Story and photo by Scott Haugen For many anglers around the world, their dream trip consists of nothing more than landing high numbers of salmon in a single day. If this is your Read More...
Advanced Spinner Techniques for Salmon
by JD Richey So, let’s just say you’re heading deep into the Alaska bush on a week-long float trip where you might encounter trout, Dollies, several species of salmon, steelhead, grayling, pike Read More...
Turn Silvers on with Jigs
We'd found silver salmon nirvana. Hiking several miles up a remote stream in Southeast, we rounded a bend and there it was. A 7-foot waterfall . . . below it a hole the Read More...
Test Your Salmon IQ
Salmon Trivia—How much do you know about Alaska's favorite gamefish? Find out here! by Greg Brush Make no mistake, Alaska's giant native rainbows are hugely popular amongst serious fly fishermen. And we all know Read More...
Best smoked salmon
By Melissa Norris There is very little that is quintessentially more Alaskan than homemaking smoked salmon. When thinking about this I also realized that nearly everyone who smokes salmon thinks theirs is the Read More...
Alaska’s Best King Rivers
By Troy Letherman Set against a carrot-colored dawn, snappish morning air pulls fog from the river, punctuating an angler’s silence: less babble than burble, current breaking over boulders and gravel bars and lapping Read More...
Sockeye on the Fly
Non-Biters or Great Gamefish? by Jim Teeny The year 1975 marked my first trip to Alaska. We went in July and I traveled and fished with Dr. Jim Hodson and his son Kip Read More...