WDFW reports that in-season monitoring shows this year's Cowlitz smelt run is big enough to support another opener, but unlike mid-February's Thursday morning dip, the one coming up Tuesday, March 5, will occur in the afternoon to try and "increase harvest...
WDFW rolled out a host of spring Chinook rule changes this afternoon affecting Southwest Washington tributaries including the Cowlitz, Kalama, Wind, Drano and Klickitat....
A new paper on Northeast Washington elk, wolves and cougars will give hunters and local residents – themselves active participants in this dynamic interplay – some things to chew on....
A new Columbia River hatchery coho forecasting model, new tule Chinook harvest matrix and more 2024 West Coast salmon predictions are being rolled out this week for public perusal....
It took awhile, but a Lower Columbia sturgeon poacher was sentenced to jail, fined and had his fishing license suspended for three years for attempting to retain an oversize fish, among other violations....
The Biden Administration, states of Oregon and Washington and Nez Perce, Yakama, Warm Springs and Umatilla Tribes signed the Columbia Basin Commitments at a White House ceremony, putting into effect a court stay to work on Snake River salmon and steelhead...
A bill requiring a fishing license to dip for smelt on the Cowlitz and elsewhere in the state is one step closer to becoming law after being passed on a 49-0 vote in Washington's Senate late this morning....
More details on last Saturday's cougar attack on a 60-year-old woman on an upper Snoqualmie Valley trail are coming out, including how fellow cyclists fought the animal and their desperate 911 call, and they make for tough reading....
Comment is open into late March on WDFW's three-year hunting package proposals, routine but "in-depth" rulemaking, and this go-around the agency is looking for feedback on a raft of ideas, from general deer season regs to bighorn special permits, hunter orange/pink...
House Bill 2434 and its bid to disband the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission won't go anywhere in Olympia this session, but this morning its prime sponsor certainly achieved his goal in introducing the "hand grenade." A couple others went off...
“Although this run is smaller than the last few year’s returns, we are still able to provide some quality fishing opportunities,” said Ryan Lothrop, Columbia River fisheries manager with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. “We have an obligation to...
In the most recent edition of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation in Washington, a sweeping analysis of hunters, anglers and wildlife viewers put out by the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife, current trends are pointing to some interesting conclusions. ...
As Washington smelt managers continue to test the Cowlitz this week to see if enough of the skinny little fish are running upstream to hold another opener – more on that below – a bill that would require dippers to have...
Blackmouth fishing off Seattle and Tacoma will be open Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays when season begins March 1, WDFW announced today....
After a construction-related season closure in 2023, Penrose Point State Park will reopen for clam, oyster and mussel harvesting from March 1-April 30, WDFW announced this morning....
Fellow cyclists are being credited with bravely fending off a cougar attack in the upper Snoqualmie Valley Saturday that could have been far worse for a 60-year-old woman who was taken to the hospital after suffering head, jaw and neck injuries....