Author: WDFW

Posted: 3/18/2021

2021 GET OUTDOORS LICENSE PACKAGE FOR SALE NOW This one-stop shop is your ticket to a year of hunting and fishing adventures! OLYMPIA — The annual Get Outdoors license package from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is available now for the 2021 season. It allows you to be ready for anything in hunting and angling this year and does it at a savings. What you get in the Get Ou...

Author: John Kruse

Posted: 3/17/2021

THE WASHINGTON OUTDOORS REPORT March 19 to March 26, 2021 OUTDOORS ROUND-UP PACIFIC NORTHWEST SPORTSMEN’S SHOW – The first sportsmen’s show in the Pacific Northwest went off without a hitch in Redmond, Oregon earlier this month and that sets the stage for what will be the largest sportsmen’s show in the nation to occur between March 24th and the 28th at the Expo Center in Portland. That ...

Author: John Kruse

Posted: 3/11/2021

Several parks east of the Cascades offer lots to do before summer arrives! CURLEW LAKE STATE PARK: Located north of Republic in Ferry County, this 87-acre State Park with a campground sits on Curlew Lake, a 5-½ mile long body of water known for good fishing. You can catch everything from trout and bass to perch and tiger muskies here. There’s also plenty of wildlife around. Deer are abundan...

Author: Barry Olson

Posted: 3/7/2021

I’ve talked in previous articles about engineered structures and how important they are to the restoration of salmon and steelhead runs. Each engineered structure type is designed to fulfill a specific purpose. Many of them have multiple benefits. In this article I’d like to go into a little more detail about specific engineered structures that we have developed through trial and error. The c...

Author: Rick Lawrence

Posted: 3/7/2021

Here are ten basic things you should do every year to get ready for the upcoming Bass season. 1 Tackle prep Pull all your lures out of their boxes, clean and inspect them all for cracks as well as damaged or rusty hooks. Check each hook for damage and replace all the hooks that need it, but also check that the hooks are sharp. If you can’t get each hook point to stick in your thumb nail ...

Author: Jason Brooks

Posted: 3/7/2021

With the announcement of spring chinook seasons in late February it is hard not to get excited about heading to a river and trying your hand at catching a few of these fish. Spring chinook are probably one of the most fished for, in hours per fish, then any other salmon. What would cause anglers to endure springtime conditions of wind, rain, cold and plain miserable weather for just a chance to ca...

Author: John Kruse

Posted: 3/7/2021

Preseason salmon forecasts, news from Washington State Parks, a new watercraft inspection station and fishing reports are all part of this week’s outdoors round-up. SALMON The salmon forecasts are in from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and it’s a bit of a mixed bag. Starting off with the good news, a great run of 1.6 million coho salmon should be coming up the Columbia Rive...

Author: Hannah Pennebaker

Posted: 3/7/2021

With the snowy weather in our rear view mirror at last, now is a great time to dust off those fishing rods and head out to your local lake for some late winter trout and kokanee fishing. While many lakes are closed until opening day in April, there are a few lakes open year round that produce yellow perch, crappie, kokanee, cutthroat trout, and rainbow trout. Fishing in the winter can be trickier ...

Author: Paul Lewis

Posted: 3/7/2021

Finally! Its March and things are looking up in the weather department. Snow, ice, and cold are beginning to lift and we are seeing the start of one of our state’s best fishing seasons, Spring! Starting this month, we have a fantastic combination of saltwater and freshwater opportunities that wake up all corners of our state. Below is a quick look at some of our state’s prime opportunities in the...

Author: WDFW

Posted: 3/7/2021

Get Outdoors license package! The annual Get Outdoors license package is available now for the 2021 season. It allows you to be ready for anything in hunting and angling this year and does it at a savings. What you get in the Get Outdoors package: • Freshwater license • Saltwater license • Shellfish & seaweed license • Two-pole endorsement • Puget Sound Dungeness crab endorseme...

Author: John Kruse

Posted: 2/26/2021

March 1st is opening day for trout anglers at the Tucannon Lakes near Pomeroy in Southeast Washington and at the Quincy Lakes in the Columbia Basin. Here’s how things are shaping up: Tucannon Lakes: According to Jason Towery, the owner of the Last Resort RV near Pomeroy, the Tucannon lakes are ice free. Blue, Spring, Rainbow and Deer lakes will all be stocked by Friday the 26th with catc...

Author: John Kruse

Posted: 2/21/2021

THE SNAKE RIVER DAMS. TO BREACH…OR NOT TO BREACH? It’s been on ongoing discussion for thirty years. Should we breach the four Lower Snake River dams to save dwindling runs of salmon and steelhead? The question has been repeatedly litigated in court as have efforts to mitigate dam operations to help smolt survive their journey downstream and adult fish survive their journey upstream through e...