Author: Andy Walgamott

Heading into the meat of Washington's 2022 general deer hunting seasons, we take our annual look at whitetail, mule deer and blacktail prospects....

The Wild Fish Conservancy and The Conservation Angler have petitioned the National Marine Fisheries Service to list prized Olympic Peninsula steelhead as either threatened or endangered, initiating a process that could lead to further reviews and possibly an ESA listing down...

The opening of razor clam season on Oregon's most productive sands, the Clatsop beaches, has been delayed due to domoic acid levels that have also postponed digging on the north side of the Columbia....

Del Stephens reports on the 2022 edition of the Lipstick Salmon Slayers tournament, which has become the second largest ladies fishing derby in the United States and saw a 29.4-pound Chinook take Big Fish honors....

With enough coho expected to return this fall, state managers announced that the Oregon side of the Grande Ronde, the Upper Columbia from Priest Rapids to Wells Dams and the lower Icicle and lower Yakima will open for retention, with kings...

The driest summer on record, as well as one of the warmest, has left a number of streams across Western Washington running at all-time lows as fall salmon begin to return to them....

The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation details over $1 million in grant funding for habitat improvements in Washington's Asotin, Chelan, Cowlitz, Mason, Pend Oreille, Pierce, Skamania and Yakima Counties, as well as other projects....

WDFW issues some regulation updates for coho fisheries on the Skagit and Cascade, including periodic closures on the mainstem and a request not to fish holes likely to hold Chinook on the extremely low-flowing tributary....

Mid-September catch stats for fall Chinook, coho, sturgeon and steelhead for select Southwest Washington waters including portions of the Lower Columbia and several tributaries....

WDFW reports four calves and a cow have been killed or injured by the Leadpoint Pack of Northeast Washington while grazing on private pastures in less than a month, figures that meet criteria for consideration of lethal removal to head off...

Oregon wildlife managers detail the resolution of a case against two men who pled guilty to a combined eight counts of failing to register as a guide and two of whose mules were seized for the crimes and will be used...

Mid-September 2022 catch and dam count stats for the Hanford Reach of the Columbia River find the run coming in 17 percent above forecast and fishing continuing to pick up, with boaters averaging 18 hours a salmon, bankies 17 hours per...

WDFW hits the pause button on the season's first razor clam digs on Washington Coast beaches as marine toxin levels rise or have exceeded safety benchmarks....

A tiny stream in Bellingham will open for hatchery Chinook fishing on six days in late September. Whatcom Creek king production helps support fisheries and orca forage needs and enough of the salmon are returning to provide a harvest opportunity....

New hunting opportunities will come to a pair of Northwest national wildlife refuges starting in the 2023 season....

With WDFW more actively monitoring salmon fisheries in the Skagit River system for Chinook encounters, agency managers have postponed the start of coho season on the Cascade, home to a hatchery run. ...