Columbia salmon managers closed Chinook retention in the Buoy 10 fishery starting Friday and anglers are being urged to switch to coho for what is expected to be good late summer fishing at the mouth of the Columbia....
With the lowest count of summer steelhead at Bonneville since the Great Depression, members of the Washington and Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commissions will talk over fisheries for the stock during a virtual meeting this Friday morning....
With more Lower Columbia hatchery Chinook being caught at Buoy 10 than expected, state fisheries staffers are recommending that king retention “close as soon as practical” to limit impacts to the stock “and allow the hatchery coho retention fishery to remain...
With the end of salmon season lurking like a fog bank on the horizon, anglers have launched an email campaign to reopen Marine Area 7 for coho and pinks next month as state managers also mull a decision....
The current estimate of Chinook harvest is 3,181 of the total harvest quota of 3,084 (103%) agreed to in this year’s List of Agreed Fisheries (LOAF). Because the harvest quota has been reached, WDFW staff have made the decision to suspend...
Reason for action: Steelhead fishing and retention in Drano Lake was closed from July through October 2021, based on low preseason forecasts of summer steelhead returning to the Columbia River. Despite this closure, creel surveys and law enforcement contacts have found...
"Terrible," "meager," "darkest hour," "worst on record." Those are some of the words being used to describe this summer's Columbia-Snake steelhead run, adjectives backed up by last Monday's jarring runsize downgrade....
Reason for action: Sufficient quota remains available to allow retention of 2 Chinook salmon per angler while meeting the Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery Management Plan goal of recreational salmon fishing into September in Marine Area 2....
The sublegal size encounter limit for the Chinook mark selective fishery has been reached. The area is closing to Chinook retention, but fishing for coho and pink salmon remains open....
Idaho Fish and Game is continuing to receive reports of dead deer in the Kamiah area. Approximately 250-300 whitetails have died near the Kamiah area. Idaho Fish and Game wildlife staff has confirmed that the disease is a type of hemorrhagic disease (HD). ...
Lower Columbia mainstem Tongue Point/Rocky Point upstream to Bonneville Dam – 228 salmonid boats and 71 Washington bank rods were tallied during Sunday’s (8/15) flight count. ...
Prepare to hold your fire, Washington grouse hunters. For the first time since 1972, the season on ruffies, blues and spruces will open on a date other than September 1....
Beginning at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Aug. 18, 2,600 deer multi-season tags will also be available on a first-come, first-served basis. To be eligible for this opportunity, interested deer hunters must have applied for a 2021 deer multi-season special hunt in the...
Following the recent passing of tribal leader Lorraine Loomis, state fishery managers announced today that the recreational crabbing opener in the Gulf of Georgia (Marine Area 7 North) in northern San Juan Islands will be delayed by two days until Aug....