Concerns and questions should be growing over the burgeoning American shad population in Lake Washington, where as of mid-April crews had netted a minimum of at least six times as many of the fish as last year....
Washington senators confirmed the appointments of all nine members of the Fish and Wildlife Commission during floor votes earlier today, four by wide margins but five by sharper, largely partisan splits....
"The back of my rig is sagging pretty bad," cackled Buzz Ramsey Thursday evening as he crossed the Hood River bridge. The sag was from the nice-sized chrome-bright hatchery spring Chinook he was toting home in his cooler after an extended...
WDFW and the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission are being sued over last month's purchase of land on the Deschutes River near Olympia for a new salmon hatchery as well as a 2021 master plan to boost salmon production in support...
Imagine, if you would, Christmas and Halloween and Easter and, oh, what the heck, your birthday all rolled into one. What do you have? Washington’s annual lowland lake opener, this year on April 22. ...
If you like wild Chinook doom and gloom with a dash or two of bright spots to keep hope alive, you'll love what's being billed as a "comprehensive" synthesis of long-term population data for stocks from Vancouver, BC, down to Sacramento...
WDFW provides more details on 2023 summer salmon and steelhead seasons on the Skykomish and Snohomish Rivers and the factors severely constraining them. ...
Just as across the big river in Washington, Oregon's wolf population grew in 2022, tallying a minimum of 178 in 24 packs, 17 breeding pairs and 14 groups, with growth especially notable last year in the state's West Wolf Management Zone....
Washington's Long Beach, Twin Harbors, Mocrocks and Copalis will all see razor clam digging later this week and early next during a series of morning minus tides, and the bonus 20-clam limit is in effect....
Columbia spring Chinook managers this evening issued an update on the fishery that closed last Tuesday, reporting that anglers kept an estimated 2,910 of the salmon in the lower river, including 26 percent of the constraining above-Bonneville quota....
Mid-April 2023 spring Chinook and steelhead catch stats for Southwest Washington's Cowlitz, Kalama, Lewis, Wind and Klickitat Rivers and Drano Lake....
“When I think of an RMEF volunteer, what I think about is our greatest asset this organization has,” said Kyle Weaver, RMEF president and CEO. “They give us the most valuable thing they have which is their time. And there’s nothing...
Skykomish River anglers will only be able to count on three days to catch hatchery summer Chinook and steelhead late next month below the Wallace, as any fishing after that will depend on the results of an in-season update....
Oregon angler Ryan Mejaski released a 33.5-inch-long, 26-inch-around bull trout from Lake Billy Chinook that maxed out a 25-pound scale, meaning it could have been at least 2 pounds bigger than the standing state record....