Reason for action: Steelhead fishing and retention in Drano Lake was closed from July through October 2021, based on low preseason forecasts of summer steelhead returning to the Columbia River. Despite this closure, creel surveys and law enforcement contacts have found...
"Terrible," "meager," "darkest hour," "worst on record." Those are some of the words being used to describe this summer's Columbia-Snake steelhead run, adjectives backed up by last Monday's jarring runsize downgrade....
Reason for action: Sufficient quota remains available to allow retention of 2 Chinook salmon per angler while meeting the Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery Management Plan goal of recreational salmon fishing into September in Marine Area 2....
The sublegal size encounter limit for the Chinook mark selective fishery has been reached. The area is closing to Chinook retention, but fishing for coho and pink salmon remains open....
Idaho Fish and Game is continuing to receive reports of dead deer in the Kamiah area. Approximately 250-300 whitetails have died near the Kamiah area. Idaho Fish and Game wildlife staff has confirmed that the disease is a type of hemorrhagic disease (HD). ...
Lower Columbia mainstem Tongue Point/Rocky Point upstream to Bonneville Dam – 228 salmonid boats and 71 Washington bank rods were tallied during Sunday’s (8/15) flight count. ...
Prepare to hold your fire, Washington grouse hunters. For the first time since 1972, the season on ruffies, blues and spruces will open on a date other than September 1....
Beginning at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Aug. 18, 2,600 deer multi-season tags will also be available on a first-come, first-served basis. To be eligible for this opportunity, interested deer hunters must have applied for a 2021 deer multi-season special hunt in the...
Following the recent passing of tribal leader Lorraine Loomis, state fishery managers announced today that the recreational crabbing opener in the Gulf of Georgia (Marine Area 7 North) in northern San Juan Islands will be delayed by two days until Aug....
The 2021 Columbia River forecasted return of upriver bright adults is 361,500, with a significant portion of these fish expected to return to the Snake River. This forecast is large enough to allow for Chinook harvest in the Snake River....
Lower Columbia mainstem Longview upstream to Bonneville Dam – 176 salmonid boats and 66 Washington bank rods were tallied during Saturday’s (8/7) flight count....
Hoot owl restrictions that closed salmon, trout and steelhead fishing at 2 p.m. are now lifted on the Deschutes River from Moody Rapids (river mile 0.5) upstream to Sherars Falls. Permanent rules are in effect from Moody Island upstream to Pelton...
Low numbers of summer steelhead returning to the North Umpqua River prompted state fishery managers to close the river and its tributaries to all angling from the mouth to the marker below Soda Springs Dam. The emergency closure is effective Aug....
The Fish and Wildlife Commission today approved the purchase of nearly 5,000 acres of land along the Minam River as part of Phase one of a project that will eventually create the 15,000-acre Minam River Wildlife Area....