Baker Lake to close for sockeye salmon fishing on Monday

Published 3:50 pm Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Officials at the state Department of Fish and Wildlife will close Baker Lake to sockeye fishing on Monday, saying the fish are moving to their spawning areas and are no longer “of sufficient quality to attract interest by anglers.”

People will still be able to fish in the lake, they just can’t keep sockeye. They also need to release any bull trout, a protected species.

This is the second year in a row that Baker Lake has opened for a sockeye season. For many years, there weren’t enough of the popular salmon to allow anglers to fish for them.