WDFW reports it checked 105 deer over mid-October's opening weekend of rifle deer season, up from last year's tally as the agency steps up efforts monitoring for chronic wasting disease in Washington's herds....
WDFW is offering a mentored pheasant hunt near Olymipa for youths and adults who've just passed hunter ed this year, while ODFW is holding a pair of waterfowl hunting workshops for adults near La Grande and Coquille....
The 2023 northern pikeminnow sport-reward season will go down as "a really solid year," and one that produced a six-figure payday for an angler for only the third time in the 30-plus-year history of the program....
Ever want to get an inside look at Lower and Mid-Columbia salmon, steelhead and sturgeon fishery management and provide input directly to state managers on them?...
The Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies responds to the release of the 2022 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation, release today by USFWS....
At long last, anglers will be able launch at and fish Tahuya Lake, on the Kitsap Peninsula west of Bremerton, when the new state access site there opens just before Thanksgiving....
Early October 2023 fall Chinook, coho and steelhead catch stats for the Lower Columbia and select Southwest Washington tribs, as well as the Hanford Reach....
In the first of hopefully more easings of the state and tribal fishing moratorium on the Elwha that began in 2011, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe is holding a ceremonial and subsistence fishery on the now damless north Olympic Peninsula river,...
The National Wildlife Federation expressed appreciation for the actions of both houses of Congress and President Biden to restore federal funding for hunter education and archery programs....
Washington's 2024 halibut season structure and dates are up for public discussion at a virtual meeting hosted the afternoon of October 11 by WDFW. West Coast fishery overseers are proposing to reallocate a portion of the Northwest's quota to California...
Thanks to tribal and state reintroductions in recent years and enough returning this fall to meet broodstock needs and spawn in the wild, coho retention will again be allowed on the Snake River from near Clarkston on up to the Oregon...
More information is coming out about the 6-foot-long, 245- to 250-pound, probably 8-year-old bluefin tuna that was discovered this past summer on an Orcas Island beach – "about 150 to 200 miles" from where you might expect to see one....
Razor clam digging was greenlighted on Oregon beaches from the Columbia's South Jetty to Tillamook Head, including the productive Clatsop County beaches, after marine toxin levels dropped below the closure limit, ODFW and ODA announced today....