Local sportfishing leaders are asking fellow anglers to avoid encounters with "critically low numbers" of wild winter steelhead "at all costs" when the Skykomish River opens tomorrow....
A federal grant from the U.S. Department of Interior announced earlier this year will be matched with funds raised by hunting/wildlife conservation groups to make migration safer for big game and other wildlife in central Oregon....
Spring Chinook fishing will not reopen on the Lower Columbia and gorge pools, nor will there be a nontreaty commercial opener, state managers decided this afternoon....
Northern pikeminnow catches and participation were up over last year as the 2020 sport reward fishery finally got rolling last week, 10 days later than usual due to coronavirus....
Halibut fishing in Puget Sound will open on Wednesday, May 20, with angling scheduled every other day through the end of the June, or the quota of 77,000 pounds is reached....
The listed crimes occurred throughout the following counties: Benton, Lane, Linn, Lincoln, Polk and Tillamook, and charges have been forwarded for consideration of prosecution....
Puget Sound halibut fishing and groundfish including crab on the Washington Coast could open by the end of May, WDFW Director Kelly Susewind told the Fish and Wildlife Commission this morning....
Lower Columbia salmon managers approved four more days of spring Chinook fishing even as officials from part of the upper watershed closed salmon angling on one system that is not expected to meet broodstock goals....
