PREDATORS -- At least two parties have reported seeing a mountain lion at Mount Spokane State Park in the past two weeks. Normally elusive, a cougar was seen and photographed in daylight outside the Quartz Mountain Lookout. Joe and Gail Madsen were renting the lookout...
FISHING -- A state record largemouth bass weighing 12.53 pounds was caught on Monday, Aug. 8, in Lake Bosworth south of Cedar Falls, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife confirmed today. Bill Evans of Bothell caught the monster bass in the Snohomish County lake...
FISHING -- Although it's going to be hot this weekend, the mixture of cool weather and occasional rain has kept the area's trout waters fishing quite well during the normal dog-days of summer, says Sean Visintainer of Silver Bow Fly Shop. "I'm actually quite surprised…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.