Northwest Fishing Reports

I can't show you any spots (I'm a bit away from there) but crappie love wood...docks, fallen trees, limb piles. Rock piles are good place to check too. I'm no expert but those are the types of places I've found them with any consistency. They can be a weird fish though cause at times they'll school...

:scratch: I know that Black lake here in Olympia has a good population of Crappie. I've even seen guys with a nice cooler of fish. I have tried several times to fish for them and have always got skunked. I can catch trout on this lake, but the crappie and perch have eluded me to the point of embarra...

Thanks for the report I guess the only thing to do is go down and give it a try

Old and moldy??? Wow! I could see a pink, or even coho, but if the green already has old and moldy chum that’s not good.

Has anyone got into any Chum yet?

ANOTHER VICTORY FOR US IN OUR PURSUIT TO HAVE FULL AND TRANSPARENT DISCLOSURE AND TO END THESE SECRET MEETINGS! On Friday, June 14th, Joe Frawley, Twin Harbors Fish and Wildlife Advocacy's (THFWA) attorney met WDFW lawyer, Mike Grossmann and others before Judge Price in Thurston County Superior Cour...

For those that are not aware, the process of setting salmon season's is known as the North of Falcon (NOF) . It is a series of meetings and negotiations that culminate in our salmon seasons, harvest quotas, restrictions and closures. For some time now, there has been a lot of concern about the meth...

Attorney Joe Frawley for the Twin Harbors Fish and Wildlife Advocacy and AAG Mike Grossman for the WDFW met in front of the Honorable Judge Price in the Thurston County Superior Court on Friday. You can read the complete update here: http://chng.it/6gBdxMMttd

May 16, 2019 Update- Interrogatory filed, discovery into WDFW season setting practices begins The Advocacy has filed its initial interrogatory, opening the first round of discovery in the legal challenge to WDFW's tribal co-management season setting practices. WDFW has 30 days to respond and provid...

Tracker, I respect your opinion. And I understand that there are a some people who feel the same way. Unfortunately, doing the same thing over and over only results in the same thing. I can assure you. This is not about just wanting to "get more". It's about preventing that from happening, since tha...

1. The WDFW Commission, IS subject to the States Open Public Meeting Act (OPMA) 2. The Commission delegates its authority to the Department to conduct negotiations,adopt,and amend rules on its behalf . The OPMA follows that delegation since the Department staff now become an extension of the Commiss...

The Twin Harbors Fish and Wildlife Advocacy (THFWA) issued a press release today announcing a filing against WDFW for setting salmon seasons behind closed doors. Many agree that the North of Falcon Process is dysfunctional and that the Departments rampant culture of secrecy is expanding. With the s...

Sports fishermen have yet again taken a big hit in the 2019 North of Falcon. Particularly hard hit was the sportsmen and women who enjoy the fisheries of Puget Sound. Many people in our sport rarely dig into the mechanics of the North of Falcon process. I dare say, many don't even know what it is. R...

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Lower numbers of adult and juvenile fish in the salt chuck coupled with the very low water conditions we have been experiencing could add up to a crash in salmon runs. Although we can continue to pump hatchery fish into the system, their needs to be a MAJOR mind shift in the management models. We ca...

THANK YOU We have gone over two thousand on-line signatures and the numbers keep growing. Thank you to all who support and signed. Please, keep working to get your friends and neighbors, family and co-workers, fellow sportsmen and fishing buddies to sign and support this very important movement. We...

We are making progress in our fight to open the WDFW/Tribal meetings that are currently closed to any public oversight! But, we NEED YOUR HELP! Our strength is in our numbers, and over 4000 sportsmen and women have already supported our petition. However, there are over 600,000 fishing license holde...

Here are a few things the State can and should do if they truly supported open and fair fisheries management. The Director of the WDFW could, for starters; 1. Formally request mediation. 2. Request assistance from the Governor and his office of tribal affairs. 3. Ask the WDFW Commission to open a di...

First, thank you to everyone who signed and support our initiative to bring some transparency to the Tribal/State North of Falcon negotiations. I would just like to touch on the subject of Sovereign nation and State responsibility as far as our fisheries are concerned. The Native American "nations" ...

Thank you Larry for posting this. It is truly unfortunate that even other gov't agencies can see how incompetent WDFW is in running our hatcheries. This is most unfortunate, since the momentum gained will be to eliminate even more hatcheries, or turn them over to the tribes.