Current Issue

Northwest Sportsman Magazine


Chums, And Then Some On The Nooksack

Got your New Year’s resolutions all figured out?

I’ll get around to my main one — less time spent blogging — right after this one.

During a wide-ranging conversation earlier today, a state biologist expressed puzzlement about this year’s unexpectedly …read more…

High On Drumstick-sized Crab Legs, Floor Looks Forward To 2012, Boat Show Season

By Tony Floor, Fishing Affairs Director, Northwest Marine Trade Association

January, 2012. I can’t believe it, let alone spell or pronounce it. Adios to 2011, the past, and hello to 2012, the future.

I’ll remember 2011 as a good year, …read more…

Bighorn Ram Decapitated, Left To Waste In Baker Co.; Reward Offered

(OSP)

UPDATED 3:11 P.M. JAN. 4, 2012: The reward has been upped to $3,000.

(OREGON STATE POLICE PRESS RELEASE)

The Oregon State Police (OSP) Fish & Wildlife Division is asking for the public’s assistance in locating the person(s) responsible for the …read more…

OR-7 No Longer In Oregon, Crosses Into California

A press release just out from the California Department of Fish and Game and forwarded by an ODFW official says that OR-7, the 21/2-year-old male wolf that left Northeast Oregon in September, hung around Crater Lake for awhile, has now …read more…

Lion Hunting On Hold Till Jan. 1 In ODFW’s Coast, North Cascades Zone

(OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE PRESS RELEASE)

ODFW is closing cougar hunting through the end of this year in the Coast/North Cascades region, after reaching the zone’s quota of 120 cougars.

Since Jan. 1, 2011, 120 cougars have been …read more…

Beware New Rules For Otter, Redfish Rocks In The New Year

(OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE PRESS RELEASE)

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is reminding anglers that harvest restrictions at two marine reserve sites, Redfish Rocks and Otter Rock, will take effect starting Jan. 1, 2012.

The new …read more…

Washington Wolf Killed In Idaho Last Week; Final 2011 Population Estimate Due Out In Early Jan.

A U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE MAP FROM EARLIER THIS YEAR SHOWS THE RANGE OF THE DIAMOND PACK, NO. 243, ACROSS THE BORDERS OF WASHINGTON AND IDAHO. (USFWS)

When Washington puts out its year-end wolf count early next week, the tally will be one fewer than it might otherwise have been.

A radio-collared member of east-central Pend Oreille County’s Diamond Pack was killed in North Idaho on Dec. …read more…

Novices No More: Fishing Adventure On BC’s MV Charlotte Princess

TAMARA & MIKE BURKE AND SOME OF THEIR CATCH.

By Mike Burke, a gaining experience angler

“What the…! Move! Quick! Get out of my way! No, not there! Get the…..”

The peaceful solitude was broken by high-pitched squeals of panic as the line was pulled out to sea. We …read more…

Oregon Hunters Can Donate $2-$100 To Counties’ Predator Control Programs; 1st $45K Goes To Administering It

(OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE PRESS RELEASE)

Hunters may now donate to predatory animal control, with proceeds going to Oregon counties to help fund their local predator control programs.

The Oregon State Legislature created this new program with the …read more…

What’s Fishing In Washington (12-28-11)

WINSTON McCLANAHAN SHOWS OFF A PAIR FROM CABLE HOLE, BELOW THE REITER PONDS STRETCH OF THE SKYKOMISH RIVER. (WRIGHT & McGILL/EAGLE CLAW PHOTO CONTEST)

He’s down I-5, he’s up I-5 — seems like Winston McClanahan’s all over Western Washington these days in pursuit of winter-run steelhead.

A couple weeks ago it was the Cowlitz, just before Christmas Break it was the Skykomish.

WINSTON …read more…