Baker Lake sockeye and marine areas 9 and 10 selective chinook are two of the most popular Puget Sound-area openings included in the state/tribal summer salmon seasons agreement reached May 26. But ...

Baker Lake opened Wednesday, which is five days sooner than expected. A good number of sockeye are moving up the Skagit River system with some being caught in open sections, and 7,597 have been ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced it will be opening sockeye fishing season at Baker Lake one week early this year. Due to the unprecedented number of returning sockeye salmon ...

The heat of summer has kicked up a notch in recent days, and two particular areas will open Friday for either sockeye or hatchery king fishing. The Baker and Skagit rivers open Friday through Sunday ...

MOUNT VERNON — The Baker Lake sockeye fishery is a complex issue. So much so the state Department of Fish and Wildlife held two public meetings where questions, concerns and possible solutions about ...

BAKER LAKE — The number of sockeye salmon swimming up the Skagit River toward Baker Lake is lower than expected, and lower than at least the past five years. The unexpected low returns became clear in ...

There must be a more beautiful place, somewhere, to while away a few hours with a fishing rod in hand, but to be better than Baker Lake and its summer sockeye salmon fishery, it would have to be truly ...

ON LAKE SUPERIOR — Joe Baker was at the helm of his 30-foot Trojan cruiser, Just Chillin’, on a foggy, early June morning when he looked back and noticed one of 14 fishing rods hanging over the stern ...

BAKER LAKE -- We were virtually alone with the eagles and old-growth, paddling the misty shores of a popular North Cascades lake that felt surprisingly wild, unmistakably in the presence of two ...