Experience world-class fishing and unforgettable wildlife at this mythical lake in Alaska, which is the largest freshwater ...

Residents of Bristol Bay communities received 712 drift gillnet permits in 1975. By 2021, they held 308 of these permits. Residents of Bristol Bay communities received 660 beach-based setnet ...

It's hard, muddy work, but it comes with fewer monetary risks than gillnet fishing. ... He is a Bristol Bay commercial fisherman and a two-time winner of the Yukon Quest. ... Alaska, 99503 ...

NAKNEK — Record-breaking numbers of sockeye salmon have returned to southwest Alaska’s Bristol Bay and the tally is expected to climb higher in the days ahead. As of Thursday, fishing crews ...

Pride of Bristol Bay: True stories from a fishing photographer. The lens doesn’t like. Fishermen on the otherhand… By Bjorn Dihle; Thursday, November 19, 2020 12:03pm ...

NAKNEK, Alaska — Record-breaking numbers of sockeye salmon have returned to southwest Alaska’s Bristol Bay, and the tally is expected to climb higher in the days ahead. As of Thursday, fishing ...

Bristol Bay sits in southwestern Alaska, due north of the Alaskan Peninsula and roughly 300 miles southwest of Anchorage. The descriptor is a catchall for the area containing the many watersheds ...

In the district court, the state argued that the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act doesn’t permit the federal ...

In Bristol Bay’s Egegik district, it’s not uncommon to see some boats fishing in areas of the fishery deemed illegal by the state. But this year seemed particularly bad, according to the ...

For months leading up to my visit to Alaska’s Tikchik Narrows Lodge, I’d been fantasizing about two personal angling milestones – landing a king salmon on a fly rod and catching a 24-inch ...

Commercial drift gillnet boats must measure 32 feet or less to fish in the bay. And the fleet got a finger-wagging from the Alaska Wildlife Troopers earlier this year.