Commercial sockeye fishing in Yakutat has been closed due to historic low returns, leaving set-netters in a bind until coho and chum season later in the summer. Unlike other salmon fisheries around ...

The Alaska Board of Fisheries has turned down a proposal to halt sport fishing for all salmon species in the Situk River drainage near Yakutat. Correction: The biological escapement goal for Chinook ...

Our drift boats were staged at the bridge, waiting for us. We were hungry for steelhead. Trey, a 40-something from Wyoming; his dad, Vernon Scharp; my dad, Don; my brother-in-law Shannon Winters; and ...

YAKUTAT, Alaska It was pitch black, freezing and a headlamp was required to follow the snow covered trail. The pace was brisk in the areas of trail protected by a dense canopy of Sitka spruce and ...

As if the winter of epic snowfall wasn't enough to suffer in coastal Alaska, now comes some really bad news: the lily white fallout is messing with the start of fishing season. At Yakutat on the Gulf ...

Knowing where and when to go fishing in Alaska depends on the type of fish the angler wants to catch. I am a novice fisherwoman, but my friend and fish sister from Hawaii, Laurie Carlson, has 40 years ...

A Yukon glacier is slowly advancing towards an Alaskan river, setting the stage for an awesome collision of natural forces. If the glacier that originates near Mount Logan in the Yukon continues ...