Hunters offered up $2000 in additional reward money for information regarding three elk poached in late October. The reward now stands at $2500 for information leading to a citation related to the bull, cow and spike elk carcasses left to waste...
Federal overseers are asking the public for what they think about a proposed Skykomish hatchery summer-run steelhead program that would utilize natural-origin fish from the river's South Fork – essentially a do-or-die bid for the future of consumptive steelheading on the...
THE FOLLOWING IS A PRESS RELEASE FROM THE WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE Recreational Dungeness crab fishing will close in Willapa Bay and remain closed in Grays Harbor, while crab fisheries on the Washington coast north of Point Chehalis will...
THE FOLLOWING IS A PRESS RELEASE FROM THE WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE Hunters who report their 2020 black bear, deer, elk, or turkey hunting results by Sunday, Jan. 10, will have the opportunity to win one of nine deer...
WDFW has revised its statement on accommodating disabled anglers who want to pursue coastal steelhead out of a boat this season – from directing them how to apply for an exemption to now pointing them to other waters with ADA access...
If you had any doubt that Washington predator management wasn't under a microscope, what were described by WDFW as "minor" changes to 2021 spring bear permit hunts drew the threat of a lawsuit....
While fishing from a boat has been banned on all Washington Coast steelhead streams under WDFW jurisdiction this season, anglers can continue to do so on a nontribal southwest Olympic Peninsula river – at least for the next month and a...
Repeated marine heatwaves off the U.S. West Coast starting about 2013 fueled record harmful algal blooms that seeded a region off Northern California and Southern Oregon with toxic algae, a new study has found. ...
This afternoon, when I should have been putting together the final bits of the January 2021 issue of Northwest Sportsman, I instead found myself digging through my wayback file for a January 2013 story....
Above the I-5 Br – 17 bank rods released one coho. 7 boats/19 rods kept four steelhead, two cutthroat and released one Chinook, two coho and two steelhead. ...
Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) Police are asking the public for information on who shot two eagles, a bald and a golden, in southeast Washington. ...
Controversial Washington Coast steelhead restrictions announced this week attracted an online audience of 500-plus this afternoon as anglers and others weighed in on the massive changes or came to hear more details on WDFW the decision was reached....
The Commission adopted a general marine bag limit of 6 fish for recreational anglers for the 2021 season in a 5-1 vote during a meeting online today....
As Washington's steelheading world continues to roil over WDFW's decision this week to ban angling from floating devices and other conservation-based restrictions on coastal systems this winter, several of the agency's overseers will hold an unexpected meeting on the issue tomorrow...