For the Fourth, we’re headed for the San Juan Islands — and we’ll have even more hands on deck to contain our son, River, who turns 2 next week. Last Fourth, over at Lake Pearrygin State Park near Winthrop, Wash., it was all that Amy, my niece Mikaylah and I could do to contain the little [...] ... >>>

You've undoubtedly heard the phrase "bikini hatch." But there's another hatch summertime fishermen have to deal with, one that's not so pleasant: the "speed boat and skiier hatch." ... >>>

Just a few minutes ago I received a forwarded plea from one of my writers concerning fox hunting in Colorado. Now, typically I don’t report on hunting issues well outside the Northwest, but in this case I feel it’s imperative that we, as sportsmen, stand with our brothers and sisters in Colorado. Fox huntin ... >>>

A young guy in shorts and T-shirt was sitting in a low-slung lawn chair between the Seahawks stadium and events center yesterday afternoon. His hand-lettered cardboard sign "Fishing 4 Tuition" caught my eye, and since I'm a fishing mag editor, I had to wander over to see what he was up to. ... >>>

ODFW wants to see your beavers, Douglas County residents. Come on, get your mind out of the gutter. ... >>>

I have a new favorite river: the Siletz. ... >>>

The caffeine had NOT kicked in this morning, but when I browsed my way over to WDFW’s Lake Washington sockeye count page around 9:45ish, I got a jolt that woke me right up: The numbers for the first three days were above 2006’s — the last season we had a fishery. The agency’s Web page showed [.. ... >>>

Clouds moved in yesterday evening and the wind came up here on Oregon’s Central Coast. And sometime in the night it began to rain. This morning, the ocean was angry. Which is what I say anytime the sea is rolling outside the windows of my inlaw’s home south of Yaquina Bay. In truth, it’s more like th ... >>>

I get a little bit of grief about the Kayak Angling column I run in Northwest Sportsman each issue. "Fishing from Tupperware? How absurd, nobody here does that!" folks claim. "That's a SoCal thing." ... >>>

Catastrophic forest fires and shell-eating seas — just a sampling of the storylines that have caught my eyes in recent days. The first disaster is covered in two places: the Yakima Herald-Republic over the weekend and The Oregonian today. Scott Sandsberry at the YHR writes about the upper valley’s “as ... >>>

I am in the wrong business, folks. While I spent most of last year writing and editing about all things fish and game in the Northwest, one Nikolay Zaremskiy of Gresham, Ore., quietly reeled in nearly $58,000 worth of northern pikeminnows from the Columbia. Together he and the runner-up in Bonneville Power Administrati ... >>>

Official advice: Get your copy of our July issue early — these things are selling faster than AR-15s or pink lures during a humpy year. While June was a very tough issue to find after the middle of last month in some locations — one Washington tackle chain called us literally begging for spare copies — ... >>>