Forget the traditional Thanksgiving turkey dinner this year; fresh, smoked steelhead might be on the menu after the big fish are released into the Boise River in November.
The Idaho Fish and Game Commission Wednesday morning approved a fall chinook harvest season on the Snake River -- the first such season in decades.
Lake Pend Oreille continues falling to its winter level with increased outflows that began Thursday, says the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Reservoir Control Center in Seattle.
A lower Columbia River mainstem prohibition on chinook salmon retention didn't last long enough for anglers to get their gear stowed away for the winter.
The Northern Pikeminnow Sport Reward Fishery Program paid out special awards of $2,000 to 10 lucky anglers over the past two weeks, part of a new September incentive effort designed to hook more of the salmon predators before the end of the sport reward season.
The Northern Pikeminnow Sport Reward Fishery Program just got a little more lucrative for anglers who catch pikeminnow in September, thanks to a new weekly drawing that will distribute five weekly prizes worth $2,000 each.
Idaho Fish And Game Releases Releases Sport Fishing Economic Report
Fishing in Idaho generated $437,631,735 in statewide retail sales in 2003 with an additional $12,289,806 for fishing licenses and permits.
High catch rates -- particularly of "upriver brights" -- have prompted the states Oregon and Washington to end retention of chinook salmon a week earlier than planned in the Buoy 10 fishery at the Columbia River's mouth.
The Coeur d'Alene Lake kokanee fishery will close effective Tuesday, Sept. 2, after the Labor Day weekend.
Idaho Fish and Game Director Cal Groen signed the emergency closure order Monday, Aug. 13, requested by Panhandle regional fishery staff.
Anglers at the Columbia River mouth will get the first shot at returning fall chinook salmon this year with the Buoy 10 fishery opening Aug. 1 and stretching throughout the month while lower river fishers remain idled until Sept. 1.
Sockeye salmon are creating a stir on the Columbia River, surging past Bonneville Dam in unexpectedly high numbers and biting surprised steelhead anglers' hooks.
Many anglers have been waiting a long time for the chinook salmon season that opens June 19.
An upriver spring chinook salmon spawning run that has proceeded in fits and starts up the Columbia and Snake rivers is almost certainly late and smaller in number than had been predicted in preseason, according to fishery officials.
An upriver spring chinook salmon spawning run that has proceeded in fits and starts up the Columbia and Snake rivers is almost certainly late and smaller in number than had been predicted in preseason, according to fishery officials.
Greater than anticipated success and effort by sport anglers has resulted in early closure -- at the end of the day Sunday -- of the sport fishing season for spring chinook salmon on the Columbia River mainstem between Portland and Bonneville Dam.
Greater than anticipated success and effort by sport anglers has resulted in early closure -- at the end of the day Sunday -- of the sport fishing season for spring chinook salmon on the Columbia River mainstem between Portland and Bonneville Dam.
The Pacific Fishery Management Council on Thursday adopted the most restrictive salmon fisheries in the history for the West Coast, in response to the unprecedented collapse of Sacramento River fall chinook and the exceptionally poor status of coho salmon from Oregon and Washington.
The Pacific Fishery Management Council on Thursday adopted the most restrictive salmon fisheries in the history for the West Coast, in response to the unprecedented collapse of Sacramento River fall chinook and the exceptionally poor status of coho salmon from Oregon and Washington.
Beleaguered non-tribal commercial fishers on the lower Columbia River received some good news this week with the assessment that the so-called "tangle" nets used in spring chinook salmon harvests in recent years cause less mortality than previously believed.
Beleaguered non-tribal commercial fishers on the lower Columbia River received some good news this week with the assessment that the so-called "tangle" nets used in spring chinook salmon harvests in recent years cause less mortality than previously believed.
With northern California chinook salmon runs forecast to be at historic lows, the sport salmon season south of Cape Falcon scheduled for March 15 through April 30 has been closed.
Hatchery chinook salmon returns to the Columbia River and portions of Puget Sound are expected to be up from last year, but low returns of coho and wild chinook could put a damper on upcoming salmon fisheries around Washington state.
Hatchery chinook salmon returns to the Columbia River and portions of Puget Sound are expected to be up from last year, but low returns of coho and wild chinook could put a damper on upcoming salmon fisheries around Washington state.
CBB SHORTS: Idaho Steelhead Season; Washington Water Resources Report; Commissions to Meet on Chinook Allocation; Kittitas Groundwater Study
Northern Idaho's Lake Pend Oreille will be held at higher than normal levels in hope that its flagging kokanee population can take advantage of newly cleansed spawning beds.
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