1:25 a.m.: Leave house north of Seattle, destination Drano Lake for a 5:30 rendezvous at boat launch. Coffee cup full; breakfast beside me; warm clothes, waders, life vest and lucky blue cooler in trunk; gas tank full. …read more…
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This season’s good springer fishing has spread to the Umatilla River while lakes across Oregon are getting fresh batches of stocker trout. Meanwhile, you can also catch steelies, walleye and even bull trout in parts of the Beaver State. Here …read more… 
So much for wandering along any ol’ small backwoods stream on a hot summer day and flipping spinners, spoons, flies or worms for whatever’s biting. …read more… A trail camera left at an illegal bear bait in Oregon in 2008 has led to the conviction of a former Idaho resident on wildlife related violations that occurred in Idaho. …read more… Score another ESA listing for Sam Wright. Today, NOAA declared three types of rockfish in Puget Sound as either threatened or endangered. …read more… 
About the same time that tens of thousands of Washington moms and dads were serving up stocker trout breakfasts yesterday, Northwest Sportsman writer Leroy Ledeboer and crew were out cleaning up on walleye. Ledeboer, of Moses Lake, was “guiding” his …read more… The wind whistled through the blooming dogwood as I strapped my brand-new pontoon boat to the top of the fish rig this past Saturday morning. Ugh, I thought, of all the days it has to blow. …read more… (JOE HYMER, PACIFIC STATES MARINE FISHERIES COMMISSION) SALMON/STEELHEAD Cowlitz River – Spring chinook and steelhead are being caught, primarily from the trout hatchery to the barrier dam. The first 14 hatchery summer run steelhead of the season were trapped at …read more… The “Technical Advisory Committee” for Lower Columbia River fisheries met today and decided there wasn’t enough information to open one fishery (commercial springers), but there was enough to close a second (sport sturgeon). 1) Even with the spring Chinook count …read more… In the California Delta, longfin smelt are in so much trouble that they warrant an “uplisting” from threatened to endangered, federal managers say, though they decided against doing so earlier this month. Six hundred miles due north in Lake Washington, …read more… |
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