We are out here fishing in Petersburg Alaska, on the Blind River Rapids - geared up with the Stingeye Spinners targeting ...
I get a day off today to write. That's good because my body needs it. Yesterday's raft trip did a number on me. I'm hearing tomorrow we might go up the Kamishak River to fish for silver salmon. They ...
After walking away from a twenty-year guiding career in Alaska to write full-time, I’m getting the chance to return for one more week on the water. This is the 6th installment of a ten-part series ...
I'm tired, my brain is tired. Going full speed every day, senses on high, and navigating myself and guests safely around the interior of Alaska is a young man's game. I can do it for a week, maybe a ...
Rescuers are searching for a 50-foot fishing vessel called the Wind Walker after the U.S. Coast Guard said it capsized in rough water southwest of Juneau, Alaska, early Sunday. Photo courtesy of ...
Lane Bolich first came to work in Alaska for the freedom and excitement that comes with being a fisher. A self-described adrenaline junkie, Bolich moved from his hometown in rural Washington state ...
GIG HARBOR, Wash. — The fishing community is a superstitious bunch. Never leave on a Friday. No black suitcases. No umbrellas. No bananas and, of course, no women on board. That changed in the 1970's ...
Today was silver salmon day, and everyone around the lodge was excited. Guide Luke Valentino and I were assigned to take a family of five up the Kamishak to see if the silvers, also known as coho, ...