Following on yesterday's announcement of tentative 2024 ocean fisheries, here are more details on what seasons Columbia and Puget Sound summer and fall salmon anglers can expect....
New mapping out from the U.S. Geological Survey today is spotlighting how heavily a Central Washington mule deer herd uses a migratory corridor intersecting with busy US 97 over Blewett Pass....
West Coast ocean salmon seasons were tentatively set this afternoon in Seattle, and there's good news for some fishermen and not so good news for others....
Following on the heels of a record run of coho past Willamette Falls last fall is a best-in-two-decades return of winter steelhead, a continuation of a remarkable turnaround for a stock that was in dire straits not so long ago....
Tillamook angler Rebecca Jones' 4.8-pound monkeyface prickleback, caught near Garibaldi on April 1, could be a new world record, topping one caught in Yaquina Bay in 2008, ODFW reports....
Lower Columbia spring Chinook managers extended the sport fishery below Bonneville Dam four more days through Tuesday, April 9, as ODFW and WDFW staffers had recommended yesterday, and will be watching whether more time might be added....
ODFW reports that a hatchery truck carrying 102,000 spring Chinook smolts meant to be released into the Imnaha River crashed on the way instead, killing 25,529, but 77,000 survived and made it into Lookingglass Creek and are expected to boost adult...
Federal salmon overseers say Oregon Coast Chinook face a low risk of extinction, according to a recently concluded deep dive into the health of runs stretching from the Necanicum in the north to the Elk and Sixes in the south....
Another clear warning about walleye expansion up the Snake has been issued by Idaho salmon and steelhead managers, who also unveiled a new focus on addressing nonnative species in that river and the Columbia....
Oregon sportfishing organizations are raising the alarm about "shocking" budget cuts to Willamette Valley salmon and steelhead hatchery programs by the Army Corps of Engineers, including a complete defunding of summer-run production....