Author: Andy Walgamott

Big run? Record run? Just an early run? It's hard to say for sure, but the sockeye count at Bonneville Dam is popping eyebrows and raising expectations....

Tacoma saltwaters are switching to daily fishing for Chinook through the end of the month, essentially adding four days of angling, with the limit also boosted to two clipped kings, WDFW announced in an e-reg and new blog series out this...

Mid-June 2024 Chinook, steelhead, shad and sturgeon catch stats for the Lower Columbia and its Southwest Washington tributaries....

Fall Chinook anglers who camp at the Vernita Bridge access site on the upper Hanford Reach should be aware of changes coming the next two seasons before overnight use is phased out for the 2026 fishery....

Oregon's Fish and Wildlife Commission today unanimously approved sending a request to increase fishing and hunting license fees to the Governor's Office for consideration in the 2025-27 budget, albeit with a memo to express concerns about the potential closure of two...

NMFS has granted the Makah Tribe a waiver from Marine Mammal Protection Act take prohibitions for ceremonial and subsistence gray whale hunts, opening the way for the tribe to apply for and receive a permit to hunt up to 25 of...

Oregon Coast fall Chinook and wild coho season proposals are "similar" to last year's. So says ODFW ahead of this Friday's Fish and Wildlife Commission meeting on the topic, when public testimony will also be taken....

Washington fish managers report shad in another Lake Washington tributary, this time at its south end....

Early June 2024 catch stats for spring Chinook, steelhead and shad in the Lower Columbia and select Southwest Washington tributaries....

The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission will mull an ODFW proposal to increase the cost of nearly all fishing and hunting licenses as well as create a new ocean angling endorsement as part of a budget request to state lawmakers that...

A North Bend, Washington, man featured in our October 2023 Dishonor Roll after being charged with 32 wildlife violations was sentenced to 80 hours of community service and fined $8,000....

More recreational shrimp fishing opportunities will occur in four Puget Sound marine areas, in addition to other scheduled openers, WDFW announced today....

Bay clam and razor clam harvest closures have been expanded to the entire Oregon Coast, joining mussels, due to high levels of the marine biotoxin paralytic shellfish poisoning, ODFW and ODA announced this evening....

A numerical transfer of hatchery spring Chinook from the balance available for the Lower Columbia recreational fishery to the Snake is providing for another day to target the salmon below Little Goose Dam....

A bill that removed fishing license exemptions for smelt, crawfish and carp in Washington waters goes into effect this Thursday after it was passed earlier this year by the state legislature with support from WDFW and signed by Governor Jay Inslee....

Late May and early June 2024 catch stats for Chinook, steelhead and shad on the Lower Columbia and select Southwest Washington waters....