"This is an important -- and preliminary -- finding, and is slightly different from many existing ideas about which nonnative species are responsible for most of the smolt predation in the Lake Washington system."...
Don't hang up your Skagit-Sauk spoons, pink worms, plugs, jigs and flies again quite yet. State fishery managers appear to have a rough gameplan for how to keep the rivers' wild steelhead catch-and-release fishery open next spring....
Whatcom County Farmer’s Lassoed Billy Was To Be Part Of 1925’s Olympic Peninsula Introductions There’s goat roping, and then there’s mountain goat roping. Yes, the latter is as much of a cluster as it sounds. (DETAIL, “MOUNTAIN GOAT,” 1951, UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER,...
The root cause analysis for the failure of one at Minter Creek Hatchery last winter was released this week and it makes for some aggravating reading....
The head of a longtime fishing organization is expressing disappointment with his local utility after it claimed summer angling is the reason wild winter-run steelhead aren't recovering in part of a popular Western Washington watershed....
Despite a reported 33 of 34 commenters being opposed to banning parking at Geezer Beach, parking will no longer be allowed at the popular lower Lake Roosevelt bank fishery....
There may not be a Skagit-Sauk steelhead catch-and-release season next spring due to WDFW's growing money woes, a "bitter pill" for the anglers who worked for half a decade to reopen the iconic North Cascades waters....