Author: Andy Walgamott

There’s a $10,000 fish swimming in Oregon’s Coquille River, where the 2nd Annual Small Mouth Bass Derby kicks off on June 3 and runs through September 10....

"This should be called a draft preservation policy not a conservation policy." "Thanks to the commission for moving in the direction of conservation of wildlife and the environment rather than giving in to those whose main interest in wildlife is consumption." Those are...

For the second year in a row, a portion of Lookingglass Creek in Oregon's Union County will open for hatchery spring Chinook, starting June 3, which falls on the start of the state's Free Fishing Weekend....

With the feds breathing heavily down their necks, "intensely frustrated" state managers had to shut down hatchery spring Chinook and steelhead fishing on the Lower Columbia effective tomorrow after Endangered Species Act limits on listed salmon were exceeded....

WDFW announces spot and non-spot shrimp openers for several Central and South Sound marine areas....

Late May 2023 spring Chinook, steelhead and shad catch stats for the Lower Columbia and its Southwest Washington tributaries....

WDFW announces that the upcoming Cascade River and upper Skagit hatchery spring Chinook fisheries will open Wednesdays through Saturdays....

Oregon fishery managers say "human error at ODFW and compounded by infrastructure issues" led to the loss of steelhead smolts that will affect the 2024 and 2025 fisheries on the Rogue and 2025-26 fisheries on the Coos....

Buried deep in the minutiae of the pending 2023-24 Washington fishing regs are rule changes that Forks-area steelheaders and salmon anglers may want to make their thoughts known about in the coming two weeks....

Like a pitbull that won't let go of a little kid, the Wild Fish Conservancy is continuing to try and derail increased hatchery Chinook production for Washington's imperiled resident orcas after a federal judge ruled against the organization's bid to halt...

WDFW and ODFW extended the hatchery spring Chinook fishery on the Lower Columbia by 11 days, with season now running straight through Sunday, June 4....

The third petition in a year to list a coastal Northwest salmonid population has been filed with the feds, with two environmental groups calling for Olympic Peninsula and Chehalis River spring Chinook to be placed on the Endangered Species Act list....

Oregon's second of three 2023 Free Fishing Weekends is coming up on the first Saturday and Sunday in June, and along with free fishing, clamming and crabbing across the state, ODFW is planning nearly a dozen Family Fishing Events that weekend...

Oregon State Police wildlife troopers say a Portland-area man has been indicted by a grand jury of 38 counts of unlawful possession/take of big game and four counts of felon in possession of firearms....

Idaho wildlife managers report three members of a family were recently found guilty of 10 felonies and eight misdemeanors after pursuing an elk herd in a truck and killing at least six animals and wasting four of them. ...

Mid- to late May 2023 spring Chinook, steelhead and shad catch stats for the Lower Columbia as well as Cowlitz, Kalama, Lewis, Wind and Klickitat Rivers and Drano Lake....