Skagit, Sauk Spring Steelhead Season To Open

After a one-year hiatus, Northwest Washington anglers will again be able to fish parts of the vaunted Skagit and Sauk Rivers for wild steelhead, albeit on a pared-back schedule from the last season.

Q&A With WDFW’s Smelt Biologist

With Lower Columbia managers meeting next Tuesday, January 26, to consider a limited commercial smelt fishery that would help determine if this year’s run is strong enough to host a second straight year of recreational dipping in the Cowlitz, here is an interview with WDFW’s eulachon biologist that appears in the February 2021 issue of Northwest Sportsman magazine.