To me, dip netting at Chitina is the quintessential Alaska experience. There is something primordial about standing on the rocks next to a raging, glacial river, surrounded by the snow-capped Wrangell ...

FAIRBANKS — The last time the state board of fisheries dipped into the matter of whether dip netting at Chitina should qualify as a subsistence activity, it had just dreamed up a new definition of the ...

Too many Kenai River dip-netters are slobs, pigs, miscreants, call them what you want. There is no debating this. The evidence is obvious to anyone who visits the mouth of the river during the dip ...

MICHIGAN (WPBN/WGTU) -- The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is reminding anglers of the upcoming netting seasons. The hand netting season opens March 1 and runs until May 31. Dip netting ...

Mid-July is time for reds to rush into Cook Inlet and up the Kenai River. And at the river’s mouth, to navigate their way past a phalanx of nets held out in the current on long poles. We're talking ...

The Kenai River personal-use dip net fishery opened Sunday on a high point. Not only was the weather sunny and warm, but unusually high numbers of sockeye salmon greeted participants of the ...

Smelt’s annual return from the ocean has long drawn thousands of dip-netters up and down the Cowlitz River. This year, however, the prized tradition will be different. The Washington Department of ...

Mar. 8—Smelt dippers will return to the banks of the Cowlitz River as the Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife has approved recreational fisheries for Wednesday, March 12, and Saturday, ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - If you enjoy fishing with nets in Michigan waters, now is the time to do it. The state's hand netting season opens Thursday, while the dip netting season opens March 20. Both ...