Christopher Bancroft

A bucket of stripped salmon carcasses, leaning against the stern of the boat, obstructed my daily deck-scrubbing duties. As my skipper counted the post-trip tip money, he gave the bucket a casual nod and said, "Feel free to take those collars home for dinner if you want." "Uh... what's a collar?" I...

Alaskan native fishing guide Brandon Ware remarked, “Our sea lions out here have a pretty infamous history.” When asked about the harbor in Petersburg, Alaska, he recalled a particularly notorious sea lion. “When I was a kid, there was one problem sea lion that ended up getting taken care of,” he...

A healthy dose of arrogance combined with social media is the predominant downfall of many poachers these days. But now and then, good old-fashioned bragging makes a comeback. In 2023, while flying back to California from the East Coast, a couple attempted to smuggle a federally protected green...

In a moment of pure terror, Gene Moe turned to see a 600-pound brown bear charging. With his gun leaning against a tree and knife in hand, Moe was ready to accept his fate. It was him or the bear, and he was going to drive that knife as deep down that monster's throat as he could. And as it turns...