If it had been a normal spring day, they might have all been down at Drano Lake, trolling and casting for spring Chinook. Instead, anglers in dozens upon dozens of boats circled in the waters of the ...

If you haven’t already heard about the recently completed Ruckelshaus report, you are going to get very familiar with it in the coming months. It will play a major role in the continued battle over ...

The Muckleshoot Indian Tribe has begun another warmwater test fishery on Lake Washington by deploying more than a dozen net sets on the east side of Mercer Island this week, alarming fans of the big ...

A fishing derby on the Coquille River targeting smallmouth has been extended through October 1, and it and other population reduction efforts appear to having an effect on the smolt-eating bass. A ...

The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission is preparing to walk away from its controversial draft Conservation Policy. JOHN LEHMKUHL, WASHINGTON FISH AND WILDLIFE COMMISSION MEMBER AND CHAIR OF THE ...

An Evergreen State sportsmen’s organization has filed a lawsuit against Governor Inslee and five of his appointees to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission and seeks to replace them with vetted ...

While 2024’s big returns to the Columbia will help keep up recent decades’ averages over pre-2000 ones, the bottom line, however, is that reaching the hydropower system mitigation goal of 5 million ...

THE FOLLOWING ARE EXCERPTS FROM THE OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE’S 2021 SPRING TURKEY HUNTING FORECAST Turkey hunting opportunities have expanded significantly in the last 20 years. Hunters ...

WDFW is laying off staffers for 29 positions, not filling many of 170 vacancies, shutting down a hatchery, closing a popular steelhead fishery next year and is being forced to let a predator ...

As Washington hunters sat on pins and needles earlier this week prodding WDFW’s special permits website in hopes of seeing they’d been drawn, I got a backdoor glimpse into how the agency awards the ...

THE FOLLOWING IS A WDFW PRESS RELEASE Anglers in Washington can expect similar salmon fishing opportunities in 2025-2026 compared to last season, that also includes a strong Puget Sound pink forecast, ...

By Jillian Garrett Times are changing in the world of outdoor recreation, and nowhere more so than when it comes to wildlife. In the most recent edition of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated ...