This weekend marks the start of the first of the Northwest's three primary general deer seasons as Oregon riflemen take the field in search of bucks, followed by Idaho then Washington later in October, so what can deer hunters expect?...
The body of fishing guide Michael Shufeldt was found yesterday morning in the Columbia Gorge 1.75 miles downstream from where he and his boat went down last Wednesday after taking a large wave over the stern....
Late September 2024 fall Chinook, coho, steelhead and sturgeon catch stats for the Lower Columbia, select Southwest Washington tributaries and the Hanford Reach....
We need to share a better story about why we hunt cougars, bears and other carnivores "because the future of hunting – and wildlife conservation – depends on it."...
WDFW says it has finalized a plan to use drones to count harbor seals and sea lions in marine waters and river estuaries to be able to estimate pinniped predation on salmon and steelhead....
The salmon fishing guide who went missing and is presumed drowned after a large wave came over the stern of his boat in the Columbia Gorge yesterday has been identified as Michael Shufeldt of Woodland....
The derby is on pause this year but fall Chinook broodstock collection continues as registration for what's been known in the past as King of the Reach is now open for Coastal Conservation Association members....
Oregon shellfish biologists report finding below average numbers of clams on Clatsop County beaches, the state's most productive, during recent surveys, but most are between 4 and 5 inches....
For at least the third even-numbered fall in a row, Drano Lake will open for hatchery steelhead fishing. Low forecasts in recent years have kept it closed, but a bump in A-and B-run expectations is providing "sufficient fishery impacts" to allow...
Mid- to late September 2024 fall Chinook, coho and steelhead catch stats for the Lower Columbia, select Southwest Washington tributaries and the Hanford Reach....
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and two litigious environmental groups appear to have reached a settlement on a federal lawsuit over alleged Endangered Species Act violations related to hatchery salmon on the Lower Columbia....
oaching cases are piling up across Oregon – the latest one that troopers need help solving involves the waste of a bull elk killed in Clackamas County east of Molalla earlier this week....
The pikeminnow bounty program on the Columbia and Snake Rivers will wrap up a handful of days early next week as managers say that the available funding for the May-September season will have been distributed to participating anglers...
ODFW is opening more of the upper Willamette River to coho fishing and will allow fishing with a second rod above the falls, thanks to a run that's on a pace to possibly set a new record....
Columbia salmon managers are adding still more time to fish for fall Chinook on the big river, including reopening the west Puget Island to Warrior Rock-Bachelor Island line fishery starting this Friday, September 20, through September 30....
