VALDEZ, Alaska – Cash prizes of $10,000 will be awarded to the person catching the largest Silver Salmon and the person catching the largest halibut in the Valdez Fish Derbies. Looking back through previous winners, the size of both the halibut and silver salmon on top of the leader board for 2024 are small. With Read More

VALDEZ, Alaska – Lindy Vititow of Valdez was crowned Queen of the Silver Salmon Sisterhood. Vitatow’s silver salmon was the largest weighed in for the Valdez Women’s Silver Salmon Derby. At 12.0-pounds, her fish was the only one to break the 12-pound mark on Saturday. Vititow won $1,000 in cash and $1,000 in prizes from Read More

The Valdez Women’s Silver Salmon Derby is this Saturday, and one lucky woman will be crowned “Queen of the Silver Salmon Sisterhood.” Valdez Fish Derbies will give away $1,000 cash and $1,000 in prizes from Prospector Outfitters to the woman catching the largest fish Saturday. The 2nd place winner will get $500 in cash and Read More

VALDEZ, Alaska – Last week, the small town of Valdez was teaming with kids catching pink salmon from the shores of Allison Point and from boats in the Port. With the Valdez Silver Salmon Derby underway, the focus this past week was trolling for silvers in Prince William Sound. The first fish to hit the Read More

VALDEZ – The Pink Salmon arrived just in time for the 2024 Valdez Kids Pink Salmon Derby. With bluebird skies and calm seas in the Port, kids caught pinks in large numbers Saturday. Devon Snorek of Fairbanks said she and her father came down with her kids and  had an amazing day. “The Tide came Read More

VALDEZ, Alaska – The Valdez Silver Salmon Derby started on Saturday and Douglas Meehan of Coweta, Oklahoma reeled in a 9-pound salmon aboard the Game Changer. Meehan’s silver salmon put him on the top of the leader board and netted him the 1st place daily prize. Audrey Zeren of Dillon, Montana took the 2nd place daily Read More

VALDEZ, Alaska – Anglers are catching pink salmon from the shores of Allison Point in Valdez. With the Valdez Fisheries Development Association (VFDA) forecasting a return of millions of pink salmon to Port Valdez this season, there should be a lot of action for the Kids Pink Salmon Derby this Saturday. Allison Point is a Read More

VALDEZ, Alaska – Kimberly Baridiano moved to Valdez from the Philippines two years ago and went halibut fishing for the first time last Tuesday. Baridiano hooked into a 130.8-pound halibut and her catch put her on the leader board for a couple days, but it was the experience of catching a large fish that helped Read More

VALDEZ, Alaska – Last season, Paul Casey of Shelbyville, Tennessee took home the Valdez Halibut Derby 1st place prize of $10,000 with a halibut weighing in at 316.8-pounds. From 1991 to present, only two anglers have caught fish weighing in at less than 200-pounds and won the top prize for largest fish in the Valdez Read More