FISHING – Starting Tuesday (Oct. 16), hatchery steelhead fisheries will open on the mainstem upper Columbia, Wenatchee, Icicle, Entiat, Methow and Okanogan rivers, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced today. In addition, the Similkameen River will open to hatchery steelhead retention beginning Nov.…
HUNTING -- Spokane-region hunter check stations will be staffed this weekend, with biologists sampling the harvest for data important to managing deer herds. Look for the stations at truck scales along Highway 395 at Deer Park and Highway 2 south of Chattaroy. The stations will…
FISHING – The fall steelhead harvest season opens in the Clearwater River drainage on Monday (Oct 15) with a few twists in the fishing rules from previous seasons. The seasons opens on the main stem of the Clearwater River above the Memorial Bridge, the South…
HUNTING -- Just in time for the the big-game rifle seasons, the elk rut is winding down and the big bulls will be slinking away from their harems to recover and hide in thick dark woods -- wherever they can avoid attention from huners and…
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