Salmon Fishing USA

The docks and boardwalks of Steveston were literally packed to the gills Saturday as fishermen unloaded their bountiful hulls before the hungry, cash-wielding crowds.

LakesBERRYESSA: Bass are deep on offshore structure and in creek channels. Fish 20 to 50 feet deep. Follow creek channels into coves to find bass. Night anglers fishing the full moon should utilize shadows of trees and docks.

The year's first catch of Alaska Salmon is heading to the processing plants after the fishery opener in Cordova Thursday morning. By all accounts, it was a mediocre day of fishing. Several boats were back in their docks early without a whole lot of fish to show for their day's work.

Daryl Carlson/Citizen photo Fisherman line the Downing Landing docks in Alton Friday. Daryl Carlson/Citizen photo Shane Kapsimalis admires the crappie he caught while fishing for salmon off the bridge in Alton Friday.

DAY 74 - The other day I took an important phone call at 8 a.m. It was Steve, the Organic Ocean fisherman from whom we buy most of our seafood, calling to say there had been a very short commercial fishery for sockeye salmon heading up the Fraser River. Would Alisa and I want a fish or two? I raced off to the docks and picked up the best sockeye I’ve ever tasted–I ate the first round raw as 100-mile sushi for lunch, then baked up dinner with no salt, no sauce, no nothing. Just the flavour of the