Spring-run Chinook salmon returned to the cool waters of the North Yuba River first as eggs, fertilized at Feather River Fish Hatchery in Oroville and embedded in October in the river’s gravel, ...

They’ve made it an annual tradition to hit the Salmon River during the fall spawn. Dad Joe and mom Heather, along with daughters Sophia, 9, and Mackenzie, 6, caught these salmon recently on the ...

As every schoolboy knows, the salmon lives under a mysterious compulsion: it must go back to its birthplace to spawn. The spawning grounds of the seagoing Chinook, which once supplied a tasty ...

Redds are created when spawning salmon whip their tails back and forth to dig holes in the gravel in which they deposit their eggs. When the species hatch in the spring, they mature for two or ...

The deep part has only a few pieces of rock at the bottom. Salmon spawn in September, and at that time the female fish are taken with nets from the neighborhood of their spawning-beds. A very ...

The user group ADF&G continues to restrict operate in near-shore coastal waters or freshwater fisheries generally catching mature salmon returning to spawn while the trawling industry operates in ...

By Tim Obrey, Moosehead Lake region fisheries resource supervisor It’s exciting when we get a chance to really move the ...