Mid-July 2025 steelhead, sockeye, Chinook, sturgeon and walleye catch stats for the Lower Columbia and select Southwest Washington tributaries.

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game shares details on recent investigations, convictions and charges in three separate deer and elk cases spanning the Panhandle and southeastern portion of the state ...

By Rick Itami Sockeye anglers who enjoyed a record run of three quarters of a million fish returning to the Columbia River in 2024 were hopeful for another fishing bonanza in 2025. An early prediction ...

Update, 2 p.m.,July 17, 2025: According to WDFW, after a meeting of state and tribal comanagers this morning to go over catches and return data, the forecast was boosted by 5,000 fish over yesterday’s ...

The White House has issued an executive order this evening creating a commission charged with looking at how to expand access to public lands for hunting, fishing and other activities, recover fish ...

Due to a low forecast of summer steelhead back to the Columbia Basin this year, ODFW is instituting protective regulations on the Deschutes and John Day Rivers and Eagle Creek.

The National Marine Fisheries Service has agreed to issue a key Endangered Species Act listing finding on Olympic Peninsula steelhead by December 1, according to documents filed in federal court this ...

"Violations were prolific" during a three-day geoduck emphasis patrol on South Puget Sound this spring, according to WDFW Police.

Oregon Coast wild coho managers have posted their 2025 season proposals, with more time on the water possible on some streams, thanks to a higher forecast than last year, but no fishery on the Umpqua ...

Fired by a steady drip of videos highlighting certain Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission members' internal communications, hunters came a'calling this morning for the resignations of four of them ...

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 ...

I think about deer camp in the Okanogan, how it sits on a nice flat spot in the hills just off a decent road and is only occupied by humans for a few weeks in fall, and then I think about it bulldozed ...