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...
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....
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...
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....
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....
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....
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. ...
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...
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. ...
Youth hunters (age 17 and younger) will need to fully complete their hunter education certification, including completing a field day, to hunt in Oregon on their own tag as of April 1, 2021....
As Washingtonians have a chance to weigh in on whether WDFW should acquire a former Lewis-Thurston County coal mine for wildlife habitat and recreational access, Fish and Wildlife Commission members took a gander at the proposal today....
Game wardens are looking for tips on who has been dumping carcasses in the greater Boise area, wantonly wasting the perfectly good meat of at least 44 ducks in recent days and weeks....
The Skagit River steelhead pre-season forecast is 4,297 steelhead. According to the Fishery Resource Management Plan for Skagit steelhead, federally approved in April 2018, when the pre-season forecast is greater than or 4,000 and less than or equal to 6,000 Skagit...
Trey Carskadon sees the bright side of things in the Northwest fishing world, and yesterday he saw the beautiful bright sides of a 39-inch-long wild winter steelhead, an absolute beast of a fish he caught in very wintery conditions....