In the days of sail, ocean travel was dangerous. Thousands of shipwrecks from that era litter Earth's oceans and beaches. Sailing ships weren't for fun and games. If you were part of the...
It's time someone put in a good word about pink salmon, the fish also known as humpies, so I'll give it a try.
Weighing between 3 and 4 pounds, pinks are the smallest of the five salmon species found in Alaska waters, but they...
A recent cold snap registering temperatures as low as 25 degrees below zero may have shuttered some fair-weather fisherman indoors.
But when the Kenai Peninsula gets cold, the grizzled and hardy fishermen go ice fishing.
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While growing up near Washington’s Puget Sound, I ate many a Crab Louie.
Sometimes called Crab Louis, this fancy salad is usually made with Dungeness crab. Originating on the West Coast in the early 1900s, it’s also known as “...
Many anglers spend the winter months dreaming and scheming.
Dreaming about the ones that got away.
Scheming about how they'll change their plan of attack when the snow melts.
But between visions of sockeyes, kings...
While those fishermen who packed their freezers full of sockeye and coho salmon this summer may be saving their catch for a winter-time feast, the same isn’t true for another creature on the Kenai Peninsula.
Currently, the Kenai...
The heat generated by the sight of his powerful frame almost made her forget the icy rain and gusting wind during the ride up the river. However, after an hour of lying on her stomach in an alder thicket, that heat had dissipated.
A seal added excitement to the salmon fishing on the Kenai River last week. Once in a while, one would come up with a fish in its mouth. Other than worry about whether the seals would put the fish off the bite, we didn’t fret...