Andy Couch

Since writing last week’s column I’ve heard of sockeye salmon being caught at Fish Creek out Knik Goose Bay Road. 54 sockeye were recorded passing the Alaska Department of Fish

Fish Creek Closes After Providing Early July Harvest Opportunity

I was talking with Jim Pougher, Manager of the Sportsman’s Warehouse fishing department on Monday and asking what he had been hearing about sport salmon fisheries in the Mat-Su Valley.

The July 26, 2024 Mat-Su Anglers column headlined, ADF&G Management Threatens Mat-Su Salmon Escapements, and that threat is now reality.

Effective August 15, 2024 the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) announced sport coho salmon fishing would be closed through September

Near the end of a 2024 fishing season where every Mat-Su location with legal fishing fishing opportunity targeting wild king salmon, listed in the sport fishing regulation booklet, was closed

When I talked with Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) area fisheries management biologist, Samantha Oslund on Tuesday, she commented that

I had three interesting conversations about Mat-Su Valley fisheries this week. I talked with Ben Allen, an owner / operator with Miller’s Riverboat

I stopped by 3 Rivers Fly and Tackle in Wasilla this week in hopes of collecting something newsworthy about Mat-Su Fisheries.

My friend Chuck Ashmun sent me an email fishing report about a guided fishing trip he made to the Kenai River below Kenai Lake last weekend.