Tip-ups are a low-tech – but effective – tool for catching pike and walleyes under the ice. Here are the finer points of these simple setups.

A U.S. District Court judge ordered the federal government to pay $1.6 million in attorney fees to Wild Fish Conservancy to ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) -- Almost every day, you will find amateur photographers Dan Sarka and David Young traversing the trails around Alameda Creek, looking to capture and document the return of ...

UC Davis undergraduate Emily Bennett and junior specialist Peter Aronson measure and monitor a salmon at Putah Creek in Yolo County in the fall of 2025. This year experienced record runs for salmon at ...

Data from Lake Michigan sport anglers and fisheries biologists in 2025 have highlighted a concerning trend: lower weights of chinook salmon. The first indicators came in summer 2025 from results at ...

This is the first time salmon have voluntarily used the watershed since the 1950s CalTrout.org Chinook salmon have been spotted in upper Alameda Creek in California for the first time since the 1950s ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Two species of Chinook salmon will not be added to the federal endangered species list. In a report published Dec. 8, the National Marine Fisheries Service and the National ...

Federal wildlife officials decided Dec. 4 not to list Oregon Coast Chinook salmon as threatened or endangered, ending multiple requests from conservation groups to give extra protections to the iconic ...

Chinook salmon, also known as "king salmon," is the largest and most valuable of all Pacific salmon species. (Photo by Conrad Gowell via Native Fish Society) (CN) — The federal government on Monday ...

California must adopt new water diversion rules to restore Sacramento and Central Valley salmon runs, protect the Bay-Delta and save coastal fishing jobs. Randy Pench Sacramento Bee file Today, ...

SUNOL – For the first time in 70 years, adult Chinook salmon have been spotted swimming the 86 vertical feet needed to return to Alameda Creek in lower Niles Canyon – and it could be a turning point ...

Chinook salmon are once again populating an upper part of the largest local tributary of the San Francisco Bay, thanks to the recent completion of a multiyear fish passage and restoration project.