Northwest Sportsman

Washington razor clam diggers will have one last series of morning low tides to harvest on as the 2025-26 season wraps up with a seven-day opener running through May 6. nwsportsmanmag.com/final-razor-cl…

The Stillaguamish Tribe is seeing chinook in restored marsh habitat, a good sign for salmon recovery and future harvests. "I have children and I would love to be able to see them fish out here," said Scott Boyd, deputy fisheries manager for the tribe. nwtt.co/p5

Between the cost of lawsuits and a constrained state budget, hatcheries are facing closure. The recreational and subsistence fishing that comes from Steelhead is vital to our community. They cannot become an extinct species. I am pushing state leaders to re-open Skamania Hatcheries and looking for solutions at the federal level as well.

An issue reported on by Henry Brannan for numerous Southwest Washington newspapers and picked up in the April and May issues of Northwest Sportsman is receiving attention from the region's US Congresswoman.

The Oregon State Marine Board will pursue a middle path on the Siletz and begin rulemaking to limit motors to 15hp and speeds to slow/no wake on a portion of the river above tidewater instead of ban all engines like a local tribe had petitioned them to do nwsportsmanmag.com/oregon-marine-…

The 2026 Northern Pikeminnow Sport-Reward Fishery opens May 1. Funded by @BonnevillePower, the program pays anglers to catch predatory northern pikeminnow and help protect salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River basin. wdfw.wa.gov/newsroom/news-…

Spring Chinook fishing will open in the waters below Little Goose Dam on Tuesdays and Fridays starting on May 5, WDFW announced. Just under 500 springer mortalities are available on this stretch of the Snake River prior to next month's runsize update. nwsportsmanmag.com/washingtons-sn…

Let’s talk about land. Here at RMEF, our conservation work has impacted over 9 million acres. That’s one square mile per day since our inception in 1984. Our work will impact 10 million acres by 2030. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

The state campground at Chopaka Lake will stay open after all, a relief for flyrodders who strongly urged the WA Department of Natural Resources to keep the facility at the destination Okanogan County trout water open in the face of continued budget cuts. nwsportsmanmag.com/chopaka-lake-c…

Sixteen thousand pounds of bycatch every hour is hard to wrap your head around until you realize those are real fish, crab, and marine life pulled up by accident and often thrown back dead. It’s the kind of number that makes you take a harder look at how we harvest seafood.

Let’s see the places that remind you why this planet’s worth paying attention to 👇

Volunteers with the National Wild Turkey Federation planted around 4,000 trees and shrubs on a Palouse property enrolled in WDFW's Hunt by Reservation system in hopes it will provide roosting and travel corridor habitat for gobblers. enhance hunting ops. nwsportsmanmag.com/nwtf-smoot-hil…

Lower Columbia springer anglers will bide time on the Willamette, Drano and elsewhere in the wake of last Saturday’s 1-day reopener that appears to not have left enough wiggle room in the early quota for any more time on the big river til May's run update nwsportsmanmag.com/lower-columbia…

Mid-April 2026 spring Chinook, steelhead, sturgeon and walleye catch stats for the Lower Columbia, lower Willamette and select Southwest Washington tributaries. nwsportsmanmag.com/sw-wa-lower-co…

Common carp found in Cooper Creek Reservoir concerns biologists myodfw.com/news/common-ca…

Tens of thousands of anglers will descend on lakes across Washington this weekend for what is shaping up to be a glorious opening day of lowland fishing season, but don't overlook all the youth fishing events on tap this time of year. nwsportsmanmag.com/along-with-was…

WDFW will run a pilot suppression study on three species of bass in Grays Harbor’s Chehalis River this spring to see if it can help reduce Chinook smolt predation there. nwsportsmanmag.com/chehalis-river…

Now Idaho and Wyoming both have public lands PACs to help educate voters about which politicians support public lands: trib.al/uUZU3hi

A lot of good work going on in Idaho's Clearwater and Salmon watersheds, critical for Snake River salmon and steelhead

A pair of Western Washington Congresswomen and an Oregon US Senator have introduced bills to create a task force to "bridge together federal, state, tribal, and industry voices to coordinate further 6PPD-quinone research and identify a safe alternative." nwsportsmanmag.com/northwest-cong…