• Oregon Wildlife Troopers Looking For Info On Wasted Cow Elk

    Oregon wildlife officials are investigating the wastage of a cow elk killed in the Coast Range earlier this month.


  • WDFW ‘Nervous’ About Coastal Steelhead Returns

    Washington coast steelhead managers shared “not good news” about this winter’s wild run with Fish and Wildlife Commissioners and members of a new advisory group this afternoon, warning that inseason rule changes might occur as early as next week, which would further restrict this season’s already-limited fishery.


  • US Senate Panel Hears Siletz, Grand Ronde Fishing, Hunting Bills

    Bills to allow two Western Oregon tribes to renegotiate fishing, hunting, trapping and gathering rights agreed to in 1980s’ deals with the state, as well as manage those resources, were considered during a US Senate committee business meeting on the pieces of legislation Wednesday.


  • Tentative March, April WA Coast Razor Clam Dig Schedule Out

    WDFW announces tentative 25 March and April razor clam openers on the Washington Coast and says diggers can expect to find “abundant populations of nice-sized clams on all beaches.”


  • Columbia Gorge, Cowlitz Fishing Report (2-15-22)

    Early to mid-February 2022 sturgeon and walleye catch stats for Columbia Gorge reservoirs and winter steelhead in the lower and middle Cowlitz River.


  • ‘A Volume Thing’: Hunter On Using E-calls For Snows

    “And that’s where I was introduced to Layne Staley.” So said our resident waterfowl hunting expert MD Johnson this evening, sending me down the YouTube rabbit hole on a Friday night in mid-February of ’22 as I sought a simple answer about a newly legalized late-season Washington snow goose tactic: