Blackberry Smoked Salmon with Sam Lungren

How To Catch Landlocked Salmon

For many anglers, catching salmon is a dream as unachievable as winning the lottery or marrying a model. It might be a once-in-a-lifetime adventure that has to be planned for years. This is especially true with two of the most iconic salmon species: Atlantic and sockeye. Generally, Atlantic salmon are only available in private waters owned by lavish sporting lodges that serve lobster and champagne. Most anglers would have to take out a second...

How to Catch Great Lakes Salmon

Biologists originally stocked Pacific salmon in the Great Lakes in the 1960s to help control the population of invasive alewives. Fifty years later, those first few little salmon smolts have turned the Great Lakes into one of the greatest salmon fisheries on the planet. Unlike their cousins in the Pacific Ocean whose numbers are dwindling and in serious trouble, the runs in most of the Great Lakes are generally doing quite well. Every year...

The Salmon Paradox: Understanding Management and Responsible Consumption

One month? That’s right folks, one month. We are exactly one month out from Fat Bear Week. Not to be confused with your weekly episode of the Bear Grease Podcast, Fat Bear Week is an annual contest in Katmai National Park that pits their well-known brown bears against each other in a bracket-style contest. A popular vote online determines which bear gained the most weight from start to end of the year’s sockeye salmon migration. This brilliant...