Fishing in Alaska is different from fishing anywhere else in the world.
It's an angler's dream. Alaska's summer waters teem with five kinds of wild Pacific salmon (king/chinook, silver/coho, red/sockeye, pink/humpback and chum), plus halibut the size of barn doors, hefty rainbow trout and delicate arctic grayling that slash at flies.
Altogether, Alaska has 21 recognized species of sport fish in its streams, lakes and oceans.
Fishing in Alaska can be as easy as buying a license and heading for a stream or lake -- or it can be a daylong boat charter in Prince William Sound or a week's worth of fly-in remote backcountry action where anglers watch for fish and for bears.
Weekly fishing report
Find out each weekend where the salmon are running and where the halibut, trout and grayling fishing is best. The Anchorage Daily News weekly fishing report covers the Anchorage area, the Kenai Peninsula, the Matanuska-Susitna valleys and Prince William Sound.
Alaska offers sportfishing everywhere from the southernmost Inside Passage to the streams of the Arctic. The most popular species -- salmon, halibut, trout, steelhead -- are found in many places. More
Let's start with licenses . . . and don't forget your king salmon stamp. Read more about licenses and derbies, fly-in fishing, charters, guide services, fish records and dipnetting. More
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