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Grilled King Salmon with Balsamic Onion Jam

Recipe by Chef Drew Johnson, Kincaid Grill Grilled Alaskan King Salmon Serves 4 4-6 oz. portions Alaska red salmon fillets Salt and pepper to taste 2 tbsp olive oil For the salmon: Preheat your

by Melissa Norris Right now, despite the non-summer chill in the air, you can drop everything you are doing, pack your Xtratufs, Grundéns and perhaps some lunch, and then head down the Sterling Highway for a little saltwater king salmon fishing. Or make it even easier and book a 45-minute flight from Anchorage on Ravn […]

Hot Kings on Juneau’s Doorstop

Hot Kings on Juneau’s Doorstop By Terry W. Sheely The black rod in the corner holder, the whippy one spooled with that garish fluorescent monofilament, shudders, bounces, slams down and I’m u

Royalty Abounds in this Breeding Ground of Kings

Royalty Abounds in this Breeding Ground of King By Marcus Weiner My fishing partner andI have spent the last three hours hooking one chrome sockeye after another, landing one in five and relishing the

A Pilgrim’s Guide to Deshka Kings

A Pilgrim’s Guide to Deshka Kings By Dan Bonney You’ve probably already tried all the bank-fishing options for kings, hopefully with a little bit of success. But the only choices for inexpensive freshwater kings near Anchorage are in Ship Creek and during the weekend openings along the Parks Highway at Willow, Caswell, Sheep and Montana […]

7 for September

Alaska Fall Fishing Trips Fish Alaska magazine Editor Troy Letherman describes seven world-class trips to take this September. As autumn matures, days get shorter and termination dust settles atop mos

Trolling Spinners for Kings

Trolling spinners is definitely not at the top of most anglers’ lists when they think of methods for fishing for Alaska’s king salmon. Largely overlooked, spinners can be used in a trolling applic

Fairbanks King Salmon

King Salmon The least abundant of the five species of North America’s Pacific salmon—albeit also the largest—the Chinook salmon range south from near Point Hope just north of Kotzebue Sound to the Islands of the Four Mountains in the Aleutian Chain and from there west across the Gulf of Alaska to Dixon Entrance. The species […]

King Salmon Fly Leader Systems

Three part video how-to series.

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 not in so m

Catch and Release on the Kenai

As many of Alaska’s king salmon runs remain weak and anglers and guides continue to whine and cry about Chinook fishing in the Great Land “not being what it once was,” it’s refreshing to hear that some people are choosing to do something about it. Kenai catch and release fishing will help revitalize the king […]

Adventures of Mac Lightfoot: The Queen of Kings

When you do something once, especially in fishing, luck is readily wheeled-out as the culprit. That one day where you caught the biggest trout or caught the most sockeye or landed silvers when no one

Kenai Beyond the Kings

by Terry Sheely “We’ve got some of the best red and silver fisheries anywhere, and the trout fishing is outstanding. Once people get past missing the kings they’ll discover that this river is fi

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