While fishing from a boat has been banned on all Washington Coast steelhead streams under WDFW jurisdiction this season, anglers can continue to do so on a nontribal southwest Olympic Peninsula river – at least for the next month and a...
Repeated marine heatwaves off the U.S. West Coast starting about 2013 fueled record harmful algal blooms that seeded a region off Northern California and Southern Oregon with toxic algae, a new study has found. ...
This afternoon, when I should have been putting together the final bits of the January 2021 issue of Northwest Sportsman, I instead found myself digging through my wayback file for a January 2013 story....
Above the I-5 Br – 17 bank rods released one coho. 7 boats/19 rods kept four steelhead, two cutthroat and released one Chinook, two coho and two steelhead. ...
Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) Police are asking the public for information on who shot two eagles, a bald and a golden, in southeast Washington. ...
Controversial Washington Coast steelhead restrictions announced this week attracted an online audience of 500-plus this afternoon as anglers and others weighed in on the massive changes or came to hear more details on WDFW the decision was reached....
The Commission adopted a general marine bag limit of 6 fish for recreational anglers for the 2021 season in a 5-1 vote during a meeting online today....
As Washington's steelheading world continues to roil over WDFW's decision this week to ban angling from floating devices and other conservation-based restrictions on coastal systems this winter, several of the agency's overseers will hold an unexpected meeting on the issue tomorrow...
WDFW is "not prepared to disclaim ownership" of the lower end of a Hood Canal river as demanded by tribal officials who in an extraordinary step linked the state agency doing so to their agreeing to next year's salmon seasons....
Effective immediately, the recreational Dungeness crab fisheries on the Washington coast south of the Queets River will close due to elevated marine toxin levels, state shellfish managers announced today....
While the Seattle Boat Show is going digital-only with its big January shindig, organizers of a major series of midwinter Northwest sportsmen's shows are rescheduling two of theirs for March but acknowledge the situation is still "very fluid" given Covid-19....
Washington steelheaders won't be able to fish out of a floating device on any coastal river systems starting Dec. 14 under sweeping conservation rules for streams from the Forks area south to Willapa Bay....
It won't be till at least tomorrow – and maybe later in the week at this pace – before this winter's major Washington Coast steelhead regulation changes are known....
