Our short fall season has arrived with a vengeance! The first seasonal weather forecasts have already been given calling for below freezing temperatures at night. I’m glad I’ve finis…

After the February 2020 Upper Cook Inlet Board of Fisheries Meeting, I believed Northern Cook Inlet streams would see significantly better sport fishing opportunities for sockeye, ch…

If there was ever a time for families to build a habit of unplugging and heading outside in Alaska year-round, it’s now. As screen time continues to increase thanks to the shift to o…

Since writing the fishing column for last week’s paper, my charter fishing success for silver salmon in Mat-Su Valley rivers has started dropping off. In other words it became more d…

On Aug. 29, this past Saturday, I attended a memorial/celebration of life for Tom Payton, a well known “jack of all trades,” who had passed on a week earlier. The gathering was more …

Moose season in the Valley opened this past Tuesday, Aug. 25, and will continue until Sept. 25. With the moose season comes the fall rains. The weather forecast I saw this evening ha…

Little Susitna River achieves coho goal, bait and bag limit restored

If you have been reading the recent fishing reports posted on my website, you might think silver salmon fishing has been good lately — after all many of my guests have been harvestin…

“Where do I find berries?”

I recently joined a group on Facebook that deals with the Fortymile caribou hunts along the Steese Highway. This particular hunt has fascinated me for several years since it’s one of…

I may have mentioned before that silver (coho) salmon are by far the most harvested salmon species taken by sport anglers in the Mat-Su Valley. For sport anglers coho salmon fishing …

Our riverboat was high centered on a rock on the far side of the channel from the shore. Our only hope was to get a line attached to something solid across the channel and use an end…

The second week of August is prime silver (coho) salmon harvest time in many Mat-Su Valley fisheries, so the week ahead could indeed provide some of the best silver salmon harvest op…

By the time this column sees print, the Fish Creek personal use fishery will be over. In my opinion, this year’s fishery was a good one, even though I, personally, didn’t net a fish.

No matter how long you’ve lived in the Mat-Su, it’s all but guaranteed that you’re still finding new corners to explore. Given an area the size of Vermont for our playground, that’s …