Thursday's keeper sturgeon day on The Dalles Pool is a go after colder water kept catch rates relatively low on last Saturday ...

There will not be a Wednesday or Saturday smelt dip on the lower Cowlitz this week, state managers posted late this afternoon.

When a bad idea that could affect fish, wildlife and our access to the Great Outdoors pops up, people of all stripes will ...

Smelt turned up after all for Wednesday's opener on the lower Cowlitz, a welcome surprise for dippers as well as state ...

There's never a guarantee with a Cowlitz smelt report, but this afternoon's looks more promising for Saturday's opener than ...

WDFW and ODFW Director representatives today approved the Lower Columbia, Columbia Gorge and SAFE spring Chinook fisheries as ...

With the March 1 fishing opener coming up at select lakes in the Columbia Basin and northeast and southeast corners of ...

Smelt dipping will be allowed on the lower Cowlitz River this Saturday, February 21, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., WDFW announced today. An estimated 14,675 pounds of smelt were harvested by 2,800 dippers on ...

Columbia spring Chinook managers will consider a season on the river below Bonneville Dam that would run through April 8 and an April 1-26+May 2 Columbia Gorge season.

Another petition to list an important Northwest fish stock under the Endangered Species Act appears to have been shot down by the feds, making for three in the last two and a half months.

The Cowlitz will be open five hours next Wednesday for smelt dipping. Whether the smelt cooperate is another question entirely.

Is it déjà vu all over again for Washington black bear hunters still smarting from the loss of the spring season several years ago?