US Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) tweeted this evening that he had “made the decision to withdraw the federal land sales provision” from the so-called Big Beautiful Bill before the US Senate. It’s a HUGE ...

Umpqua River wild Chinook anglers escaped a full closure but will still see a heavily restricted fishery this fall.

The federal government is pulling out of a deal that paused a long-running court case over Columbia River hydropower operations and their impacts on listed salmon and steelhead stocks and which might ...

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 ...

Ahead of the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission's final decision late next week, ODFW has posted proposed wild fall Chinook regs for 2025's fishery, including closing most of the mainstem Umpqua and ...

The second of ODFW's three Free Fishing Weekends of the year is coming up June 7-8, a time when you can catch trout, go crabbing, or attend a family fishing event without a license.

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. All that and more is ...

Washington Governor Bob Ferguson has signed into law a pair of bills increasing the cost to fish and hunt in the state.

The suspension of most recreational activities on the Yakima Training Center in Central Washington by the US Army due to a "hiring freeze" and upcoming military training has blown up hundreds of elk ...

THE FOLLOWING FISHING REPORT WAS FORWARDED BY JERRY PRUIETT, WDFW Preliminary Washington Tributary Sport Summary – April 19-27, 2025 Salmon/Steelhead Cowlitz River I-5 Br downstream – 98 bank rods ...

A program that as of December 2023 has provided $1.8 billion in federal money and leveraged another $2.2 billion for almost 16,000-plus projects that have restored, created or set aside nearly 1.2 ...

WDFW is detailing tentative 2025-26 Washington salmon fisheries, including bonus pinks in most inner Puget Sound fisheries, Skykomish summer Chinook, Skagit-Baker sockeye, ocean kings and coho, and ...