Washington warmwater fishery managers released 12,400 channel catfish into 12 lakes across the state this past spring, the first stocking of the long-lived and popular spinyrayed sport fish since 2014....
Puget Sound Chinook anglers should know soon whether they'll have another July go at the marked hatchery fish after last week's opener "saw plenty of effort and catch," particularly in Admiralty Inlet....
Failing to recognize the clear recovery wolves have made in Washington and with the governor pressing his thumb on the scales once again, the state Fish and Wildlife Commission took no action on downlisting gray wolves today, with motions to downlist...
ODFW will be talking how to manage 2025 black and canary rockfish harvest reductions with anglers at a series of public meetings that begin July 29....
WDFW Police report that Randolph "Randy" Cox, 28, of Grays Harbor County has been sentenced to nearly 2.5 years in prison and fined $2,000 in connection to the poaching of at least two elk in 2022....
Federal fishery overseers say that the viability of Willamette River spring Chinook and winter steelhead has declined since 2016's review of both stocks and recommends that upstream and downstream passage past dams, deep reservoir drawdowns in fall and winter and continued...
WDFW Director Kelly Susewind is expressing disappointment and apologizing about a third-party vendor's software issue that screwed up the special permit draw for hundreds of hunters across 22 of 27 application categories....
WDFW and the National Wild Turkey Federation are putting out word about a relatively new summer survey of turkey and upland game bird broods Washington residents can participate in and that provides "valuable data that helps monitor population growth and informs...
A series of public meetings on Oregon's proposed 2025 big game regulations kicks off this evening, Monday, July 8. ODFW says no major changes are on the docket, but details on controlled tags and season dates will be available....
The tail end of the 2024 Columbia sockeye run whacked away the old record count of the salmon at Bonneville Dam yesterday, hitting 665,972 fish through Sunday, July 7....
We had cold hands, and the hunt was over because of it. Naturally we needed breakfast, again, because we “didn’t want to waste our pack snacks when there is a town full of restaurants.” I was mapping out how to get...
Five years have passed since that first grouse hunt, and Jo’s grown out of her “Daddy pack.” She opts for shoulder rides instead, but most of the time she walks, or runs. She stops to pick and smell flowers, wipe the...
Now the real challenges started. The hunting and fishing part – I know how to do that. But how do I teach them to my child? How do I make it fun all the time? How do I make the slow...