Monthly Archives: August 2014

Alaska’s Mat-Su Valley Coho Coming In Strong

By Andy Couch | 08/29/2014 The first summer after the Alaska Board of Fisheries reconfigured Upper Cook Inlet commercial drift fishing regulations to ensure more adequate spawning escapements of salmon to Northern Cook Inlet streams, and to provide a more reasonable opportunity for Northern User groups to harvest some of the Inlet’s salmon bounty, Knik […]

Learn To Fish Washington’s Nisqually River

By Duane Inglin | 08/25/2014 The Nisqually River is a Puget Sound river where the native Chinook are listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. Therefore, there’s not been any retention of native Chinook on the Nisqually for a number of years. That’s ok, though. Fortunately, there is also successful Chinook hatchery program on […]