It's a different river from what Fanning recalls from his youth. The king salmon run that for so long was the centerpiece of the Kenai River has virtually dried up, with the fishery closed for a third ...

Nearly 2.5 million late-run sockeye are projected to pass through the Kenai River by the end of the month, over-escaping the river by over 1 million fish. Those numbers concern fishermen like Joe ...

A record number of sockeye salmon passed through the sonar on the Kasilof River Thursday. About 125,628 sockeye were recorded at the sonar there — a new daily record for the run, according to Brian ...

COOPER LANDING — Sockeye salmon are running on the Kenai Peninsula and fishermen are taking note. Crowds flooded the Russian and Kenai Rivers over the past week as the Russian reached its early-run ...

KENAI — Hundreds of fishermen dotted the banks at the mouth of the Kenai River on Saturday as silhouettes of gulls swarmed the horizon, with Mount Redoubt in the distance. Above, the warm — and this ...

For many anglers, an Alaskan fishing adventure is a dream come true. But where do you start? The Kenai River in Alaska is famous for its epic salmon runs, incredible rainbow trout and dolly varden ...

The first time I ever heard of sockeye salmon was in the mid-1980s. A friend and I had traveled up to Alaska to do some salmon fishing and as we were driving to Soldotna to get to the portion of the ...

Summer in Soldotna, Alaska, is full of long days; July 1 is a 19-hour day and the 31st of August runs nearly 14 and a half hours. For fishing guide Andrew Chadwick, long days are just part of the job.

For the ninth year in a row, the State Department of Fish and Game has opened the Russian River Sanctuary Area to sockeye fishing early in response to strong runs. The sanctuary, a small area of the ...

Erosion control and walkway improvements are needed at Big Eddy Day Use Area, which provides fishing access points to the Kenai River in Soldotna, Alaska, according to Shannon Martin, executive ...