A 2- to 3-mile-wide strip of nearshore waters along Washington's Long Beach Peninsula will close to salmon fishing starting July 16 after strong Chinook catches bit into the guideline, preserving opportunity for coho and kings later in the season....
With the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission set to make a possibly momentous decision against the limited-entry spring black bear hunt this Friday (not to mention second Blue Mountains cougar tags), the state chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers is calling...
Columbia salmon managers are extending hatchery summer Chinook and sockeye season through the end of July between the Astoria-Megler Bridge and Bonneville Dam. ...
"It is not too late to rebuild the vibrant, productive ecosystems on which most fish and wildlife resources, as well as the people of the Columbia River basin, depend."...
Early July 2022 summer Chinook, steelhead, sturgeon, walleye and shad fishing report for the Lower Columbia and select Southwest Washington tributaries....
"All of this is elk, at least 15 heads," says a Fish and Game employee in a video as he pans around the rocky slope covered in femurs, backbones, skulls, spines and fur. "Looks like a landslide, but it's hard to...
A new $565,000 Americans with Disabilities Act fishing pier will open this week along Bandon's marina breakwater, providing a safe place to fish from shore just inside the mouth of the Coquille River....
The first Merwin Special Kids Day fishing event since 2019 was a "great experience" for not only the kiddos, who caught a lot of nice fish at the North Lewis River hatchery, but adults and volunteers alike, Pacific Power reports....
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and Coquille Tribe are putting the prongs in “multipronged effort” as they work to reduce smallmouth numbers on a troubled coastal salmon system....
ODFW reminds razor clammers that the annual North Coast conservation closure begins in mid-July, but notes that the shellfish are still open elsewhere along the ocean....
WDFW announces there will be three more spot shrimp days, July 7-9, in Marine Area 7 South, and non-spot shrimp fishing is now open in Area 7 East, 8-1 and 8-2 through mid-October....
Early July and late June 2022 summer Chinook, sockeye, summer steelhead, shad and sturgeon fishing report for the Lower Columbia River and its Washington-side tributaries....
Early July and late June 2022 summer Chinook and sockeye catch stats for the Hanford Reach of the Mid-Columbia River show over 3,700 sockeye caught last week, with "excellent" fishing expected to continue through this week....