WDFW announces that the lower end of the Snohomish will open two weeks earlier than scheduled for pinks and coho, but that fishing with eggs will be prohibited throughout the river....
WDFW announces that Marine Area 11, which shut down to all salmon fishing last month, will reopen August 9-31 for coho and pinks only, and only for fishing from shore....
When the editor's away, the news still happens. Such is the message from a full inbox on a Monday morning after a nice long camping trip the hell away from words and blogs and commissions and rule change notices....
The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission is set to make decisions on a memorandum of agreement with the Grand Ronde Tribe, the 2023-24 fishing regs and other matters in Salem on August 4....
Three West Coast tribes, including two from Puget Sound, are petitioning the federal government to prohibit the use of a tire additive that is known to kill coho and other Northwest salmon when it breaks down into a chemical compound and...
With Chinook observed in the Skykomish near Reiter Ponds and very limited allowable impacts on the stock this summer, WDFW is closing the river above Highway 2 to all fishing starting August 2....
All fishing on Oregon's North Umpqua and its tribs will be shut down starting Monday, July 31, due to a low return of wild summer steelhead, as well as water temperatures approaching 80 degrees....
Salmon anglers will need to release Chinook on Fridays and Saturdays when fishing the Washington Coast's Marine Area 2 off Westport, starting later this week....
Between July 1- 25, 2023, a total of 10,809 unmarked summer steelhead passed Bonneville Dam. A minimum of 9,900 was needed during the month of July to keep steelhead fishing open. If less than 9,900 had passed for the entire month...
With around two dozen sturgeon dying due to high water temperatures in the Mid-Columbia, state managers are closing all fishing for the long-lived species between The Dalles and Priest Rapids Dams starting this Saturday....
For the second summer in a row – and perhaps only the second time ever – the lower Wenatchee River will open for sockeye retention. It's later in the run, but salmon are still going over Rock Island Dam downstream of...
With Chinook still available in the quota, the San Juan Islands will reopen for hatchery kings this Friday and Saturday, July 28-29, WDFW announced this morning....
A pair of podcasts out this week scrutinize the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission and its recent controversial decisions around spring black bear hunting, attempts to write a new conservation policy and other moves....