The local in-basin stocks that are now being used to generate hatchery runs will start to return this month, will build ...

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Thursday its tentative schedule for recreational smelt dip net fishing ...

Smelt’s annual return from the ocean has long drawn thousands of dip-netters up and down the Cowlitz River. This year, ...

The Nisqually River winds through ... asserting their treaty rights to fish, often through lawsuits and concrete action like protesting by fishing, Washington state tribes have kept salmon ...

A summer spent fishing was lucrative for one angler who earned a record amount of just more than $164,000 for turning in the northern pikeminnow caught in the Columbia or Snake rivers.

Anglers can only retain up to two hatchery steelhead. Wild steelhead must be returned to the water immediately.