Category: Editors Blog

Razor clam diggers can return to ocean beaches for a seven-day opening beginning Dec. 10....

WDFW staffers will present the Fish and Wildlife Commission a half dozen options for liberalizing bass, walleye and channel catfish retention in select waters across Washington later this month....

A utility district's petition to restrict bait fishing for half the year and roll back the opening of the summer Chinook and steelhead season on Washington's Skykomish was rebuffed by the Fish and Wildlife Commission late last week....

Washington's 2019 general rifle deer season is just about a wrap, with only hours worth of hunting time left in the state's northeast corner for whitetails....

As one public comment period closed last week, two others important to Northwest sportsmen will end soon as well....

Washington state salmon managers are appealing to the Department of the Interior to set aside a 2016 opinion that has kept sport anglers from fishing the lower Skokomish for plentiful Chinook and coho for four years....

If you hunted Okanogan County or Northeast Washington this past weekend and got a deer, tip of the hat, as success rates for the rifle opener were just in the 12 to 16 percent range....

The 2019 pikeminnow sport reward season wrapped up early last week and it featured a pair of surprises....

About 10 years back, I had a friend named Jim who was running a guide service on the ocean. It usually was for rockfish and he only ran out a few miles from the safety of the bar and the inner...

As organizers of a Thanksgiving-week-long steelhead derby are cancelling their event, fishing for different species is being added to a salmon series. Signs of the times?...

With Washington’s general rifle buck season looming large in hunters’ minds, it’s time to check in with Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists for what they are forecasting for districts spread across the state....

As Oregon's recreational albacore fishery has hit new highs this summer, the size of the tuna also appears to be the lowest it's been over the last decade and a half....

Idaho deer and elk hunters should see good to excellent hunting for elk and white-tailed deer, and average mule deer hunting in 2019, but that’s likely to vary by location across the state....

Some Oregon hunters have already notched their tags, as bow deer and elk as well as controlled pronghorn seasons opened in August, but the bulk of the Beaver State's deer and elk chasers are chomping at the proverbial bit for their...

Federal oceanographers say a new Blob has formed in the North Pacific off the Northwest Coast in recent months and is already second in size to the one earlier this decade that hit salmon and other marine life hard...

With water temperatures running in the less-than-salmon-friendly mid-60-degree-range on the Duwamish River this week, I've been trying to be mindful of how long I've played and how long I've fished for humpies the last few days....