The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife will open a harvest fishery for white sturgeon in Lake Roosevelt starting June 15.
As of last weekend, June 1, the requirement to use barbless hooks to fish for salmon, steelhead and trout in the Columbia River is no longer mandatory.
The number of upriver spring chinook forecasted to return to the Columbia River in what was already set to be a poor year dropped by 25 percent this week.
Runs of Columbia River summer and fall chinook salmon, sockeye salmon and upriver steelhead are predicted to again have a poor year, but the forecasted run of coho will be higher than recent runs of the fish.
Runs of Columbia River summer and fall chinook salmon, sockeye salmon and upriver steelhead are predicted to again have a poor year, but the forecasted run of coho will be higher than recent runs of the fish.
A recent Idaho study has offered a better understanding of the behavior of smallmouth bass in the Snake River and its tributaries.
Idaho Fish and Game biologists are in the midst of a multi-year study in four Idaho reservoirs to evaluate the performance of hatchery-stocked chinook salmon, and how they can be best used to improve certain fisheries around the state
Anglers who fish for salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River basin will no longer be required to purchase an endorsement to do so beginning July 1
Oregon and Washington have opened this year a portion of the lower Columbia River to spring chinook fishing four times since March 1.
This year’s Northern Pikeminnow Sport Reward Fishery in the Columbia and Snake rivers opens Wednesday, May 1.
Spring chinook fishing in Idaho will open on April 27, with a two-day-a-week season on the Clearwater River and a four-day-a-week season on the Salmon and Little Salmon rivers. The season will run until sport anglers’ shares of the harvest are met (which varies by river) or Aug. 11 — whichever comes first.
Anglers can expect a mixed bag of salmon fisheries this year with increased coho opportunities in the ocean and the Columbia River, but additional necessary restrictions to protect chinook in Puget Sound.
Anglers can expect a mixed bag of salmon fisheries this year with increased coho opportunities in the ocean and the Columbia River, but additional necessary restrictions to protect chinook in Puget Sound.
Idaho Fish and Game staff will share updates on the Lake Pend Oreille fishery and activities planned for 2019 at the annual State of the Lake public meeting on Thursday, April 4 from 6-8 p.m. at the Pend Oreille Events Center. The Events Center is located at 401 Bonner Mall Way, Suite E, in Pend Oreille.
Just half the average number of upriver spring chinook salmon are forecasted to enter the Columbia River this year, a decline in abundance that will limit spring recreational angling.
Washington State fishery managers have scheduled a variety of opportunities for the public to participate in setting salmon fishing seasons for 2019, starting with the annual statewide salmon forecast meeting Wednesday, Feb. 27.
Oregon, Washington and Idaho mandate anglers to release all wild steelhead they catch, but the effects on progeny of the steelhead caused by the stress of the fight, as well as by the air exposure as anglers release the fish prior to spawning, are still being debated.
Idaho chinook salmon anglers will have an opportunity next week to offer their thoughts on how the Idaho Department of Fish and Game will manage the fishery in 2019.
The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission has signaled its support for state fishery managers' plans to consider the dietary needs of endangered orcas when they set this year's salmon-fishing seasons.
More than 3,000 people registered for the Bonneville Power Administration’s 2018 Northern Pikeminnow Sport Reward Program. Combined, they spent more than 23,000 angler days catching and removing 180,271 of the salmon-eating fish.
Idaho is suspending angling for steelhead in Idaho until it can obtain an incidental take permit from NOAA Fisheries that would legally allow the state to reopen the fishing.
Anglers in Lake Roosevelt caught a 47.5 inch, 27.5 pound northern pike in the lake and another angler caught a pike just 10 miles from the rim of Grand Coulee Dam, much further downstream than previous sightings of the predatory fish.
With continued low returns of summer steelhead into the Snake River and its tributaries, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife this week extended its one hatchery fish bag limit through the end of the year.
Idaho Fish and Game recently reached an agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to assume operations of the Hagerman National Fish Hatchery, which raises about 1.6 million juvenile steelhead for release in the Upper Salmon River Basin.
An annual live capture fishing derby, held in the Columbia River’s Hanford Reach near the Tri-Cities — one of the largest derbies of its kind in the country — will be held the weekend of Oct. 26-28.
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