Bristol Bay Contest
Bristol Bay contest: Win a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fish in Bristol Bay, Alaska! Enter now for a chance to embark on a 4-day, 3-night adventure, Read More...
The Susitna Basin Recreational Rivers
The Susitna River, Alaska is a large and very popular recreation area. It is both beautiful and important to local ecosystems. Susitna River Alaska Southcentral Alaska’s mighty Susitna River is the Read More...
Eklutna River: Coming Home
Eklutna River water flow and salmon migration have been blocked by hydroelectric dams for decades. The benefits of these dams must be balanced with the wellness of the impacted environment. The initiative Read More...
Nature Knows Best
Nature Knows Best: Stream restoration recreates natural features found in healthy salmon streams Story by Marian Giannulis Photos by Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition A remote salmon stream in the Tongass National Forest, Read More...
Creating a Tribal Restoration Workforce
Creating a Tribal Restoration Workforce Story and photos by Marian Giannulis The rain slowly fell on a cool May morning as a small crowd of people gathered in a pullout alongside an Read More...
Eklutna River Update
A Future for the Eklutna River: Returning water and salmon to a Southcentral stream Story by Eric Booton In early September 2021, I walked the upper reaches of the Eklutna River canyon Read More...
Fishing Education
Story and photos by Nelli Williams A few years ago, my kids were playing with friends at a park in Anchorage. The newly built playground was near a gravel bar and medium-sized Read More...
Bristol Bay Guide Academy
Meet the Next Generation of Bristol Bay Flyfishing Guides Story and photos by Meghan Barker It’s 7 a.m. on opening day of fishing in Bristol Bay. A crew of sleepy, but eager teenagers Read More...
Restoring Cook Inlet Chinooks
Restoring Cook Inlet Chinooks Story by Marian Giannulis If you are fishing in Alaska with the hope of catching the official state fish—the Chinook, or king salmon—there’s a chance you will wet your Read More...
Susitna Salmon Country and a 100-plus-mile Road
Story and photos by Eric Booton Susitna River tributaries are dynamic, exceedingly productive, conducive to numerous fishing techniques, and plentiful. Thousands of river miles create valuable habitat for large populations of salmon, rainbow Read More...
Best Trout Fishing Gear
Trout Unlimited : Best Trout Fishing Gear Staff Picks Story by Dave Atcheson There is no bad weather, only bad gear.” This is a saying that not only pertains to clothing and gear, Read More...
Susitna River Basin: an Inspiring Alaska Wilderness Float
Whitewater and Wild Rainbows But public access at risk by proposal to strip Susitna River Basin of “Recreational River” status Story by Eric Booton Airborne, we crossed Cook Inlet and began tracing the Susitna River north. My twin sister, Read More...
Conservation-Minded Traveler
written by Dave Atcheson photos by Bruce King Bruce King, a recently retired Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist, is an avid traveler and adventurer, as well as a diehard angler, who could Read More...
The Yakutat Fish Factory
Every year anglers flock to Yakutat to cast their chance at catching a trophy steelhead or to fill their freezer with wild salmon. Most of these anglers likely know that Yakutat is Read More...
The Western Native Trout Challenge in Alaska
Meet Alaska’s native trout species and the angler who pursued them during a single visit Story by Marian Giannulis Photos by Daniel A. Ritz/@Jacks_Experience_Trading An Arctic Grayling caught by Daniel, a Read More...