Bass anglers caught 2,000-plus smallmouth during the first weekend of a new derby on the Coquille, but a specially tagged fish worth $1,000 escaped capture on the Oregon South Coast river where round two will occur on the Saturday and Sunday...
Thanks to a big run of sockeye, Washington salmon managers are opening both the lower Wenatchee River and Lake Wenatchee for retention of the species in the coming days, with four-sockeye daily limits....
ROOSTER! ROOSTER! BOOM! BOOM! Another one in the bag Horseshoe Curve Hunt Club is an upland bird preserve open to the public.Nestled along the Umatilla River, 10 miles west of Pendleton, Ore., thewhole valley is private land… not available to be hunted. We...
Support for hunting remains strong in Washington and opposition to the traditional activity barely registers more than single digits, according to a public survey just released by WDFW....
With halibut still available in the quota, WDFW announces August and September openers for coastal waters, the Strait of Juan de Fuca and elsewhere, as well as upcoming meetings to talk about 2023 season structure and proposed dates....
Washington game wardens will hand-deliver criminal charges against a Hood Canal trio found with nearly 15 times the limit of spot shrimp, the latest example of bad behavior by shellfish swine, folks who grossly exceed the rules and steal natural resources...
Chinook retention will close in Marine Area 2, off Westport, on Fridays and Saturdays starting July 22, WDFW announces, a measure meant to stay within the "modest" king harvest guideline and stretch the season and tap into abundant hatchery coho.
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ODFW reports that an adult wolf and five pups were photographed on a trail cam in the Cascades in an area where one wolf was being monitored after being spotted in August 2021....
WDFW announces hatchery Chinook retention will reopen July 21-23 in the San Juan Islands, where 44 percent of the harvest quota was filled over the season's first three-day opener....
Mid-July 2022 summer Chinook, sockeye, sturgeon, shad, walleye and steelhead fishing catch stats for the Lower Columbia, Southwest Washington tributaries and the Hanford Reach....
Hunters will be able to take a second cougar in Southeast Washington's Blue Mountains this season after Fish and Wildlife Commissioners narrowly approved WDFW's proposal to try and reduce mountain lion predation on a hard-bitten elk herd....
The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission has voted 5-4 to tell WDFW wildlife managers not to prepare a proposal for a spring bear hunt for approval this October. ...
With Coquille River fall Chinook runs at an extreme low and as another example of how far fishery managers are going to save the run, ODFW and the Coquille Tribe are proposing a conservation hatchery to rear up to 100,000 smolts...
Applications are now being taken for a free mentored youth deer hunting weekend at a Northeast Washington wildlife area in late August, and it's geared to kiddos 12 to 16 who've never hunted before and don't have anybody to show them...
Oregon wildlife managers share more details on the sentencing of two Harney County residents involved in the vehicular pursuit of 100-plus elk last December and firing of "30-40 shots into the fleeing herd."...