For those of us that like to fish or eat fresh fish, July is the ideal time in Northwest Montana to enjoy a fish fry of delicious kokanee salmon. The kokanee is a fresh water version of the Pacific ...

At Detroit Reservoir in late April, more than 70 boats cruised circles around the lake in pursuit of a fish — salmon. But chances are good it's not the type of salmon most Oregonians would imagine. As ...

The kokanee is the non-anadromous form of the sockeye salmon (meaning they do not migrate to the ocean and instead spend their entire lives in freshwater). Kokanee have a greenish-blue back (and are ...

As my boat glided through the mist, one rod gave three telltale downward bobs on the downrigger. Before I even had hands on it, a silver rocket exploded out of the water, pirouetting across the ...

The silver rush is on at Wallowa Lake. Prospectors hoping to land the world's largest kokanee have been battling brittle cold along with the silvery land-locked sockeye salmon on this popular ...

While conducting seminars at The Great Northwest Outdoor Expo, I met Kory Richardson, the owner of Lucky Tackle Co. Of course, you know what happens when two gung-ho fishermen get together! We were ...

Brad Halleck remembers waking up before sunrise to go fishing at Green Peter Reservoir. “If you didn’t get there by 7 a.m., the parking lots were full,” said Halleck, a longtime angler and board ...

It’s been a banner year for kokanee salmon, which nearly disappeared from Lake Sammamish, east of Seattle. More of the little red fish have spawned in streams above the lake, King County’s second ...

We saw hundreds of red Kokanee trying to spawn in the Ririe Reservoir up near the Narrows,” explained an excited fisherman as they came off the water last Saturday. “We tried to catch them, but they ...