SW WA, Columbia Fishing Report (4-19-21)
John Day Pool – 35 boats/89 rods kept 333 walleye and released 133 walleye. ...
Category: HEADLINES
Tri-Cities Walleye Trip Renews Early Spring Tradition
Last year with the whole Covid lockdown we were unable to attend our annual walleye weekend with TJ Hester of Hester's Sportfishing, so this year we were so glad to get out and walleye fish once again with him. ...
An Interesting Week At North Of Falcon
These have been active days in the Western Washington salmon fishing world. As North of Falcon negotiations on 2021-22 Chinook, coho, pink, sockeye and chum seasons enter the final two weeks and WDFW managers outlined their Pugetropolis proposals on Wednesday, a...
Funding To Be Sought For WDFW Land Projects, Including 2 In Chehalis Basin
They're still far from a done deal, but WDFW is moving ahead on a slate of six land projects across Washington, including two in the Chehalis River watershed that have drawn pushback from local farmers and public officials but also support...
Status Quo Recommended For Late NE WA Whitetail Hunt After APR, Shorter Season Floated
WDFW hunting managers are no longer recommending to shorten the late whitetail rifle hunt in the state’s northeastern corner as 2021-23 big and small game season proposals head to the Fish and Wildlife Commission for a briefing and public comment Friday....
Video Shares Ongoing ‘Predator-Prey Project’ Work In Okanogan, Northeast Washington
A video on the state's Predator-Prey Project, a legislatively mandated effort to figure out the impacts of wolves and cougars on deer, elk and moose – as well as each other – in portions of northern Eastern Washington, was debuted by...
Razor Clam Bio Talks About Extended Closure, Lingering High Domoic Acid Levels
Matt Hunter, ODFW’s Shellfish Project Leader explained the problem began when a late September “stall” in ocean current and winds caused an offshore HAB. This stall resulted from the coastal current remaining southward instead of the fall transition northward and weak...
‘A Lot Of Happy People Heading Home With Smelt’ After Opener On Cowlitz
Smelt dippers reported fast netting during today's opener on the lower Cowlitz River, quickly catching their limits of 10 pounds of the oily little fish also known as eulachon....
$1,000 Reward Now Offered By Hunter Group For Info On Burns Deer Blow Gun Darting
A second mule deer has died and at least three more were injured after being struck with blow gun darts within the Burns city limits over the last four months. The Oregon Hunters Association is offering $1,000 in reward money for...
Wild Olympics Wilderness, Scenic Rivers Proposal Passes US House
A bill to designate nearly 200 square miles of national forest lands on the Olympic Peninsula as wilderness and portions of 19 rivers as wild and scenic passed the U.S. House today....
WFC Sues WDFW Over South Fork Skykomish Summer Steelhead Program
Despite a written assurance from WDFW's director that he wouldn't release steelhead smolts reared for a new Skykomish River hatchery program without final federal go-ahead, a highly litigious environmental group sued the agency last week anyway....
Coho Rumor Confirmed: 1.732 Million; Columbia Springer Season Parameters Outlined
Northwest salmon managers are forecasting an ocean abundance of at least 1.732 million coho off the coast this summer, confirming rumormongering here over the weekend....
Rumor Central: OPI Ocean Coho Abundance Forecast Said To Be Strong
I'm not sure if the bonkers one is the ocean coho forecast that I'm hearing, or me for sharing it without Official Sources, Quotes & Footnotes, but probably it's a little bit of both of us. ...
New Focus On Snake Dams Raises Hope For Salmon, Fisheries, Local Economies
When Buzz Ramsey talks, people tend to listen. I know I do. For decades upon decades now, the famed cowboy-hatted Northwest angler has been catching salmon and steelhead, tinkering with lures and sharing expert advice with fellow fishermen. Ramsey retired at...
SW WA, Columbia Gorge Pools, Hanford Fishing Reports (2-1-21)
John Day Pool – 21 boats/38 rods kept 49 walleye and released 17 walleye. ...
WDFW Commission Approves Nonlethal Hound Pursuit Training Protocols
As predator management issues once again raised howls of objections in Washington, the Fish and Wildlife Commission approved protocols for a legislatively mandated hound training program. ...