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True North Sportfishing off ers self-guided halibut boats taking advantage of a federal regulation that allows unguided anglers to keep two fish a day of any size. It's wild Alaska at its best in one of the most underfished salmon, halibut and bottomfish destinations in a state famous for its hot fishing locales. Features Beyond the five river otters gulping leftover herring baits along the Elfin Cove docks, we watch an Icy Strait evening shading into oranges, golds and blacks. [Extracted from the article]

Clayoquat Sound off Vancouver island is one of the Northwest's few vigourous chinook and coho salmon fisheries. In addition, a fly- and light-tackle fishery is developing on shallow flats and bars.

Features What attracted me to the small fishing community of Los Barriles on the East Cape of Baja was the staggering variety of inshore and offshore gamefish. The rooster attacks, Waugh jerks the mullet teaser clear, and I cast - a short, tight loop that drops the fly exactly where the live mullet had been. I'll gladly take the striped marlin, sail-fish, dorado, yellowfin tuna, wahoo, pargo and the rest of the 80 varieties of gamefish here, but it's the black-and-white-painted faces of roosterfish that make me tremble. [Extracted from the article]

But if you like to eat salmon - and I do - this conventional option puts salmon in the freezer on a Tyee Pool destination trip. As the time approaches, boatmen guiding a fleet of look-alike lapstrake rowboats jam the eddy off the mouth of the Campbell River, pushed together by an incoming tide and a singular goal: tyee, the First Nations word for "chief." Features For a bucket-list destination, this internationally famous British Columbia salmon pool at the mouth of the Campbell River on Vancouver Island is strangely quiet. [Extracted from the article]

+ SWS Planner Southeast Louisiana Redfish WHAT Redfish WHERE Venice, Buras and Empire, Louisiana WHEN Great action year-round. Features With daybreak erasing the night lights on oil platforms and slowly revealing the beauty of the Louisiana bayou, anticipation fills my first redfishing morning as Capt. Dan Skermetta runs his shallow-water skiff toward a line of roseau cane, where he says a few thousand redfish await our popping corks and jigs. Spring tides flood the marshes with redfish food - finger mullet, pinfish, pogies, cocahoes, shrimp and small crabs. [Extracted from the article]

Features A chrome-blue torpedo of a tuna blows out from under the hull of the 55-foot Rampage, snatches the struggling anchovy, and dissolves into the depths. But we're learning, and judging by the upshot of albacore's popularity in Oregon and Washington, Northwest anglers are loving what we're learning. Washington and British Columbia have no limit on albacore, although Washington does require a fishing license. [Extracted from the article]

Byline: Terry W. Sheely The metric momma would have been a world record Was that truly a world-record 25.35-pound walleye that Ed Iman, an Oregon guide, hooked, landed, weighed and [...]