"This is an important -- and preliminary -- finding, and is slightly different from many existing ideas about which nonnative species are responsible for most of the smolt predation in the Lake Washington system."...
Don't hang up your Skagit-Sauk spoons, pink worms, plugs, jigs and flies again quite yet. State fishery managers appear to have a rough gameplan for how to keep the rivers' wild steelhead catch-and-release fishery open next spring....
The root cause analysis for the failure of one at Minter Creek Hatchery last winter was released this week and it makes for some aggravating reading....
The head of a longtime fishing organization is expressing disappointment with his local utility after it claimed summer angling is the reason wild winter-run steelhead aren't recovering in part of a popular Western Washington watershed....
Despite a reported 33 of 34 commenters being opposed to banning parking at Geezer Beach, parking will no longer be allowed at the popular lower Lake Roosevelt bank fishery....
There may not be a Skagit-Sauk steelhead catch-and-release season next spring due to WDFW's growing money woes, a "bitter pill" for the anglers who worked for half a decade to reopen the iconic North Cascades waters....
Lee Getzewich had heard that there was some gillnetting going on on Lake Sammamish, a water he's fished for more than 25 years, and it gave him some pause, but believing it to be just a "study," the Issaquah resident decided...
A pneumonia outbreak may have run its course in a herd of Okanogan County bighorn sheep after killing nearly a dozen this past winter, but wildlife managers will keep monitoring the animals....
Washington fish and wildlife managers are now projecting they will have a $20 million budget shortfall over the coming two years, and it could more than double in the following two....
Releases of Skamania-strain summer-runs will be ended in the Skykomish River in the coming years following a lawsuit settlement between a highly litigious environmental group and state managers, who are also making a separate bid to replace the fish with locally...
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's proposed fee hike failed in the state legislature and the Columbia salmon and steelhead endorsement will expire as lawmakers passed a two-year budget over the weekend....
With a show of hands last night in Renton, anglers and others asked a longtime Lake Washington sockeye advocate to request WDFW look into what it would take to recover the salmon stock and restore the fabled metro fishery....
After hibernating for the past two months, WDFW's fee bills have woken up and are moving again, but what will emerges from the den that is the Washington legislature remains to be seen....
Washington anglers can expect a mixed bag of salmon fisheries this year with increased coho opportunities in the ocean and the Columbia River, but additional necessary restrictions to protect chinook in Puget Sound. ...
