Category: Editors Blog

WDFW is mulling another smelt opener after dippers harvested an estimated 35,500 pounds out of the lower Cowlitz in five hours late last week....

Without California sea lions intercepting them at the falls this winter, wild Willamette steelhead are making it upriver in numbers not seen so early in several years, helping to sharply reduce their risk of extinction....

Smelt are now being smoked for snacks as well as prepared for sturgeon bait after today's five-hour opener on the lower Cowlitz....

Even as angling reopens on sections of most of them today, state managers are dealing with a significant eggtake shortfall on three of four east Puget Sound river systems due to "the worst ever return" of the popular fish....

A key member of Western Washington's sportfishing community appeared in a new documentary this week urging often at-odds salmon stakeholders to work together to recover habitat and runs....

Earlier this month, Reps. Cindy Ryu and Lauren Davis (both D-Shoreline) introduced a bill that would require teens and adults aboard all watercraft less than 19 feet long to wear Coast Guard-approved PFDs, and this week HB 2443 had a hearing...

It was the fall of 1969, man had just walked on the moon, the road over the top of the North Cascades was still dirt and all of Washington's big and small game seasons fit on one side of a state...

Along with the big racks, the gun raffle he signed up for and the guy with the sparky fire tool thingy, what caught the eye of my youngest son at the fishing and hunting show we attended last winter was a...

Like many North Sound steelheaders, I'm disappointed with this week's news that not enough wild winter-runs are forecast to return to the Skagit and Sauk this year to support another catch-and-release opener....

A broad range of fishing, hunting and other outdoor groups are calling on Washington lawmakers to fully fund WDFW through the General Fund and say that the license fee increase proposed by Governor Jay Inslee is "unlikely" to pass....

Maybe it’s that we’re so close to the winter solstice or just the times we live in, but a glance back over the decade in Northwest fishing and hunting seems like a bleak undertaking. Viewed through the lens of late December...

Governor Inslee is proposing to increase Washington fishing and hunting licenses and bring back the Columbia River endorsement to partially fill gaping holes in WDFW's budget, surprising agency officials....

Columbia salmon managers are rolling out more 2020 forecasts and sockeye might be the bright spot next year....

Washington land managers have their eyes on nearly 7,000 acres across the state for fish and wildlife habitat, angling, hunting and other recreational uses and are asking for comment on them....

It turns out that my best idea for solving aggravating Baker sockeye harvest inequities would cost on the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars -- money WDFW doesn't exactly have at the moment -- and require round-the-clock monitoring so thieves...

A local fishing magazine's recent list of the "15 most influential communicators" in the Northwest's angling world caught my eye and while I can not argue with any of those who made the roundup, from my vantage point I feel there...