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 ...

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 ...

Columbia fall salmon season dates, hatchery-Chinook-only retention periods, September river closures, a new boundary line for a super popular fishery near the mouth of the Lewis River. All that and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 has approved buying the boat ramps and parking area of a Sekiu fishing resort, securing public access to angling and boating opportunities on the central ...

Editor’s note: Updated 4:55 p.m., August 25, 2021, with comments at bottom from Buzz Ramsey and press releases from ODFW and WDFW. Columbia salmon managers closed Chinook retention in the Buoy 10 ...