Category: Editors Blog

I always wonder where my opening day will take me as I try to think of new options, consider revisiting old haunts and wondering what the new season might have in store....

Even though winter struck late and stuck around into March, Annemarie Prince, WDFW’s District 1 wildlife biologist, doesn’t think it will impact turkey numbers....

The Olympia Outsider™ has been taking his name very literally, soaking up some serious ray-age the past few days, but back indoors Washington lawmakers have been busy girls and boys in the halls of power, amending, debating and voting on all...

As a major organization in the Northwest fishing world now openly urges its members to oppose WDFW's fee increase proposal because of the Fish and Wildlife Commission's Columbia reforms vote last weekend, the head of Washington's agency has issued an extraordinary...

The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission late this morning voted in favor of a joint-state subpanel's recommendation to decrease recreational salmon fishing allocations on the Columbia and keep gillnetters on the big river....

Supporters of Columbia River salmon reforms are urging anglers to get in touch with fishery overseers and one state's lawmakers after a subpanel of the Oregon and Washington Fish and Wildlife Commissions this week voted to revert to 2016 benchmarks....

The big North of Falcon salmon forecast reveal is being live-streamed today on WDFW's webpage, where the predictions for Washington Chinook, coho, sockeye, pink and chum runs are also posted, as are comparisons to past years....

Today, Feb. 22, is cutoff day for many bills to get out of their initial legislative committees in Olympia, and the rush has been on to move as many as possible....

Here's more on those and other bills that are showing signs of life....

Washington fish and wildlife managers are looking for public comment on whether they should acquire 4,000 acres of land for salmon, forage fish and critter habitat and public recreation....

This is the second fee bill WDFW has floated since 2017 and Crosier is optimistic this one will do better than the last one. "It's getting a lot more positive reach, at least in Olympia," she notes, adding that some Republicans...

Washington lawmakers continue to introduce fish- and wildlife-related bills, and several of note were dropped this week, some more serious than others....

If Washington's legislature is back in town, so is the Olympia Outsider™! Well, mostly anyway, what with the restraining order and all, but boy have lawmakers been busy so far at the state capitol!...

The idea that we can save Puget Sound's starving orcas by just stopping salmon fishing for a few years once again reared its misinformed head, this time in a big-city newspaper piece....

A disabled Lake Roosevelt angler and local officials are concerned that access to a good fishing hole just above Grand Coulee Dam might be reduced or even lost entirely....

Congratulations, Jason Bauer, you’ve died and gone to heaven. True, heaven will look a lot like the state fairgrounds in midwinter, but on the flip side there are scones – not to mention a giant walleye tank and the smells of...