Coastal razor clam enthusiasts are waiting for the green light on whether the first digs of the autumn season will come to fruition, and much of that hinges on marine toxin test results. “We did our first run of results on Monday, and all the domoic acid — a natural marine toxin produced by certain […]
By Mark Yuasa For those like me who missed out on the Buoy 10 chinook fishery at the Lower Columbia River mouth last month, you can still score a second chance to catch those exact same fish about 375 miles upstream. “The fish counts for chinook have really shot up at Bonneville and McNary dams this […]
By Dave Graybill Fall in North Central Washington is most often the favorite season for anglers in the region. Our weather cools a bit and it makes it more appealing to be out on the water after the heat of summer. While the weather is cooling there are a couple of fisheries that heat up […]
By Mark Yuasa The yellow perch in Lake Washington are one of the most prolific fish species in Lake Washington, and for anglers they’re easy to find and extremely fun to catch. “I recently took our marketing team out to fish for them, and we caught around 200 and never left our one spot,” said Danny Garrett, […]
Coastal razor clam lovers will likely see a decline in clam populations for 2017-18 digging season. State Fish and Wildlife biologists are in process of finalizing summer razor clam population assessments at Long Beach, Copalis, Mocrocks and Kalaloch. The exception is Twin Harbors that will undergo abundance surveys this coming week. “Razor clam populations are […]
By Mark Yuasa Year in and year out, the Lower Columbia River mouth near Buoy 10 has been deemed one of the top salmon fisheries in the Pacific Northwest and anglers will see an added caveat in later-summer. Tony Floor, the director of fishing affairs for the Northwest Marine Trade Association has made this is […]
by Jason Brooks The lower Columbia river that separates Oregon and Washington is a super-highway for salmon and steelhead. As fall runs approach most anglers set up and wait to intercept fish. A single take-down makes everyone on board excited but what if there was another fishery where you can catch over a dozen or […]
The inner-marine waterway salmon fisheries will begin in earnest this coming Sunday (July 16) when northern and central Puget Sound (Marine Catch Areas 9 and 10) open for the much anticipated hatchery king fishery. “The increased quota for the mark-selective fishery is primarily due to the larger run size we forecasted, and there should be […]
Something mighty fishy has been happening in Puget Sound, and it deals with one tiny bottom-dwelling sea creature that often gets no respect in the sport-fishing world. Just a short while ago – on May 25 to be exact – the state record for a Pacific sanddab was set by Juan Valero of Seattle who […]
by Jason Brooks If you have been hunting for a few years or more then I am sure you have missed a time or two. We all would like to think that under pressure and when it counts that we will make the shot. And when we do miss oftentimes we start guessing at why […]
