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Kayak Angler Lands 2 Nice Halibut Off Neah, A Huge Hit With Makahs

(RORY O'CONNOR)

Call it good karma or good fishing, either way kayak angler Rory O’Connor had a hella good hali trip out of Neah Bay recently. …read more…

EPA: Potential ‘Adverse Impacts’ On Bristol Bay Salmon Fishery With Pebble Mine; Comment Period On Draft Study Open Into July

BRISTOL BAY SALMON RUNS AVERAGE 37.5 MILLION ANNUALLY AND PROVIDE WIDESPREAD ECONOMIC BENEFITS THAT MAY BE IMPACTED IF MINE PONDS AT A PLANNED GIANT MINE IN ITS HEADWATERS WERE TO FAIL, SAYS A DRAFT EPA REPORT. (TERRY WIEST/STEELHEAD UNIVERSITY)

The report concludes that there is potential for certain activities associated with large-scale mining to have adverse impacts on the productivity and sustainability of the salmon fishery in the watershed. Potential impacts could include loss of habitat used for salmon spawning and rearing. …read more…

Mercer Island Has A Muley And Whitetail Deer Problem

No, seriously, that what’s being reported on one of those we-hook-your-street-corner-up-to-the-world blogs this morning, this one from the 6.2-square-mile and very, very, very, very wealthy Lake Washington island which is bisected by miles 6 through 8 of I-90.

Hell, if …read more…

Oregon, Washington Wolf Update

Coverage out of last weekend’s wolf symposium in Albany, Ore., featured words from a federal official on the possible future status of Canis lupus in the western two-thirds of a pair of Northwest states.

“What wolves there are in Western …read more…

Springer Run Expectations Downgraded Significantly

Old prediction: 314,200 upriver-bound springers. New prediction: Just 61 to 69 percent of that. Columbia salmon managers released a revised forecast with that news this afternoon. …read more…

WDFW Releases Short Video Of ‘Wedge’ Grizzly Bear

grizzle bear

So what do you do if you’re a big ol’ grizzly bear wandering around the Wedge of Northeast Washington and you want to make yourself known?

Well, apparently you find yourself a motion-activated trail cam — the woods seem to …read more…

How To Fish Wind River And Drano Lake

WIND 1

Just ran the PIT tag data for hatchery spring Chinook returns back to Wind River and Drano Lake and, ummmm, holy mother is it gonna be on that the Wind!

Since Saturday, nearly two-thirds of this year’s return of the …read more…

May 9: 6th Best Springer Day Ever At Bonneville

Yesterday saw the biggest single-day count of spring Chinook of the last nine years, fifth largest back through the early 2000′s renaissance of the run and sixth largest back to the late 1930s: 18,436.

We had an inkling Wednesday would …read more…

An Even Bigger Springer Count Today Will Help Fuel Wind, Drano Fisheries

SPRINGERBULANCE. (JEFF HOLMES)

All right, whose bad-ass Ghostbusters-style tow rig is this?

Come on, fess up, guy who trailers their sled to Wind River behind a retired green-and-white ambulance with the light package still attached.

Heck, I’m assuming it’s retired, for all I …read more…

Hello, Springers — 12,000-fish Day At Bonneville

SPRINGERS BUM RUSHED THE DAM YESTERDAY.

Yesterday saw the second largest single-day count of spring Chinook at Bonneville Dam of the past eight years thanks to an even 12,000 that went through the ladders.

Fish cam watchers were seeing three, four, five fish in the ladder …read more…

 
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