The Herald’s Mike Benbow shows you how to make an effective lure using bright pink marabou feathers, the favorite color of the humpy salmon. Hook: Any 1/4 or 1/8 ounce lead-headed jig hook ...

I’d hooked the humpy. RELATED: Alaska Salmon Fishing on 25 Dollars a Day We began our second morning at the mouth of a feeder creek. I quickly caught three cohos on bait and spoons. Fooling them ...

We circle and I see fishing boats tied up next to a large ... untamed landscape that makes their home so special. Image A pink salmon — or “humpy,” as they’re called locally — spawns ...

Seasoned humpy veterans know that these soft-mouthed salmon will do that to you ... thought baseball fans were the only stat nuts) while fishing the stretch between the Highway 2 bridge and ...

SEATTLE - If you've attended a Seattle Mariners game this season, you've likely caught a glimpse of the spectacle known as the Salmon Run, where four fish mascots — Silver, Sockeye, King and ...

The first two advisory announcements from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game opening areas to commercial salmon fishermen ...

grab a fishing pole. This is shaping up to be one of the best pink salmon, or humpy, seasons in years. People on the Skagit River report catching their limit in less than an hour. That has ...

The word “humpy” has a lot of meanings ... (Courtesy photo) Jason walked me through the basic salmon fishing rig that is popular on the river. You attach weight to the leader and below ...

This can be true—especially when the salmon are feeding on extremely light-averse amphipods and euphausiids—but there are plenty of exceptions to the rule; many a humpy finds itself attached to a ...

Alaska's rivers are home to all five species of Pacific salmon; pink (humpy), chinook (king), coho ... "This will be the fifth year of not fishing," she says. "We had a lot of heat stress in ...