Wind River Springer Fishery Expanded, Bag Upped

(WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH & WILDLIFE PRESS RELEASE)

Daily limit and fishing area increase for hatchery spring chinook at Wind River

Action:   Daily limit increases to 2 chinook or hatchery steelhead, or one of each.  Opens the river upstream of …read more…

Lewis, Washougal Steelheaders Sought For State Planning On SW WA Rivers

WDFW IS CALLING ON WASHOUGAL RIVER ANGLERS LIKE SAMUEL STUART TO HELP WITH MANAGMENT PLANNING ON FOUR SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON STEELHEAD TRIBS. (WRIGHT & McGILL/EAGLE CLAW PHOTO CONTEST)

(WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH & WILDLIFE PRESS RELEASE)

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) will host a public meeting June 4 in Vancouver, Wash., to begin the process of developing steelhead management plans for four tributaries to the …read more…

PA Kayak Angler Who Died In Car Wreck Remembered As ‘Amazing Guy, Amazing Fisherman’

BRYAN CRAWFORD WITH A LARGE HALIBUT HE AND HIS FAMILY RECENTLY BROUGHT BACK TO NEAH BAY.

Western Washington kayak anglers are remembering one of their own who died yesterday on the northern Olympic Peninsula.

“He was an amazing guy and an amazing fisherman,” says Rory O’Conner about Bryan Crawford.

The 52-year-old Port Angeles exterior home cleaner …read more…

The Officialer Columbia Springer Reopener Notice

(OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE PRESS RELEASE)

Sport fishermen will get an additional three weeks to get out and catch a chinook salmon on the Columbia River below Bonneville Dam under a season extension approved Monday by fishery managers …read more…

The Official Word On Columbia Springer Reopener

(COLUMBIA RIVER JOINT STATE NOTICE)

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife May 20, 2013

The States of Oregon and Washington met today and took the following action:

2013 Mainstem Columbia River Spring Chinook Recreational Fisheries Downstream of Bonneville Dam Season …read more…

SW WA, Lower Columbia Fishing Report (5-21-13)

(REPORT COURTESY PSMFC SUPERVISING FISHERIES BIOLOGIST JOE HYMER)

SALMON/STEELHEAD

Elochoman River from mouth to West Fork and Grays River from mouth to South Fork and West Fork from mouth to hatchery intake/footbridge – Under permanent rules, open to fishing for …read more…

Columbia Managers Discussing May 23 Springer Reopener

Spring Chinook retention could reopen on the Columbia this Thursday for 24 days, a proposed fishery that would bring the recreational fleet’s harvest for the season on the lower river within one-one hundredth of a percent of filled.

That is, …read more…

NWS Writer Finds Walleye, More Biting On Moses Lake

NORTHWEST SPORTSMAN COLUMNIST LEROY LEDEBOER SHOWS OFF A NICE CATCH OF MOSES LAKE WALLEYE. (LEROY LEDEBOER)

Editor’s note: This report comes from our Moses Lake scribe, a longtime walleye angler and outdoor writer.

By Leroy Ledeboer

Good day on the water. Friday, May 17th, I joined guide Shelby Ross (509-750-7763) for a day of searching out …read more…

Family, Youth Fishing Events In Oregon On Saturday

THE RICKER SIBLINGS, ALEX, THEN 8, AND CIARA, THEN 10, LAND A RAINBOW AT A YOUTH FISHING EVENT HELD AT ST. LOUIS PONDS. THEIR GRANDFATHER, JOE RICKER, WATCHES WITH A SMILE. (RICK SWART, ODFW)

At least three family fishing events and one youth angling day will occur at ponds around Oregon tomorrow, Saturday, May 18.

Below is the rundown from ODFW on three; information on the fourth, held at Middle Fork Irrigation Pond in …read more…

Public Meeting Called On Cowlitz Fish Plans

(WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH & WILDLIFE PRESS RELEASE)

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) and Tacoma Power are hosting a public meeting regarding Cowlitz River fisheries and hatchery programs May 29 in Centralia.

The meeting is scheduled from …read more…