Salmon Fishing USA

"Uncertainty" and "high prices" are the terms that best sum up Alaska's salmon season so far. There's lots of fishing left to go, but runs to most regions are late and low. That has buyers scrambling to fill orders from eager customers, especially for scanty sockeye salmon.

Salt water fishing continues to be the big news this week with the past long weekend seeing a lot of boats on the water. People heading out from Alder Bay were catching both salmon and halibut throughout the week.

People who fish for a living pursue top profits, not necessarily top predators, according to the first-ever analysis of worldwide catch and economic data for the past 55 years. This differs from the observation raised 10 years ago that humans were "fishing down" the food web. It was assumed that catches of the predators at the top of the food chain, such as halibut and tuna, were declining after ...

Waterfall Resort, a world-class sport fishing resort located in Southeast Alaska's famous Inside Passage, attracting anglers of all skill levels for its staggering number of trophy-size King Salmon, Coho and Halibut is now welcoming new and return guests for extraordinary fishing thru August 2010.

Above, Carey and Scott decided halibut fishing was the thing to do on Saturday. Knowing that it was going to be crazy at all the local salmon hot spots due to the Juan de Fuca Salmon Derby they headed west past French Beach and caught themselves a nice 73-pound hali.