We’d been jigging spoons for five hours. We drilled through eight feet of ice to reach water. We had yet to get a bite. “It’s so peaceful out here,” my wife, Tiffany, whispered, not wanting to break ...

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Explore Fairbanks is pleased to announce the release of the complimentary 2025-26 Fairbanks Winter Guide. This 32-page, ...

Many of us celebrate the opportunity to visit Alaska’s lakes, rivers and wetlands while they are wrapped in winter’s hard embrace. But we know there are consequences. Falling injuries are the most ...

I first heard about arctic grayling from an episode of the television fishing show, Babe Winkelman's Good Fishing when I was a kid. Those gorgeous fish with the impossibly large dorsal fins seemed so ...