Winter kokanee fishing is a fairly new phenomenon. Or, it is fairly new to most anglers. Some old-timers, who knew that the landlocked salmon could be caught in December as easily as June, kept it ...

Trout and kokanee enthusiast should mark their calendars for Thursday, April 4. Longtime professional angler Benita Galland of Coeur d’Alene is giving a seminar at Mark’s Marine in Coeur d’Alene on ...

Frigid morning temperatures have kept fish activity at a minimum on area rivers, but the bite picks up somewhat in the afternoon. Deep dredging with double nymph rigs and streamers will entice some ...

Sockeye salmon come in two forms here in the Northwest. Well, they come in four forms if you count buying a fresh fillet or some canned sockeye at the market. We won’t count those. No, today, and I ...

Before the water warms up, kokanee can be very shallow. If you are having trouble catching fish early in the season, try fishing at depths less than 10 feet or even longlining with no weight at all.

Labor Day found me without a fishing partner due to illness, so I headed to Ririe Reservoir to observe how the fishing was going for both man and birds. Before the sun came up, the sky was busier than ...

A bull trout caught on a crank bait is brought to the boat while fishing the Metolius Arm of Lake Billy Chinook in 2019. The Metolius Arm opens to fishing on March 1 and requires a Warm Springs tribal ...