FISHING -- My friend, Jim, had been kicking but on Lake Roosevelt kokanee and rainbows last week, as he's done most of the times he's fished the reservoir for years. The fish researcher at the Keller boat ramp check station said the anglers on shore…
RIVERS -- Members of the Spokane Canoe and Kayak Club, pictured above unloading their boats at the popular Spokane River Centennial Trail access at Mission and Flora on Sunday, are working to assure that the access won't be gobbled up by development plans. The access…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- With lakes losing their ice caps and rain saturating the region's wetlands, this is prime time to view the waterfowl migration throughout the region. Reports are coming in of big congregations of tundra swans, ducks as well as sandhill cranes and other…
FLY FISHING -- Oregon fishing guide and fly-fishing innovator Tom Larimer will present a free steelhead fly fishing tactics clinic starting at 6 p.m. on April 8 at Silver Bow Fly Shop in Spokane Valley. (Please notify the shop if you will attend so they…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- A hawk-eyed reader recently noticed that the poles that had supported urban osprey nests not far from the Valley Costco store were missing -- and so were the osprey. She contacted me, and I contacted the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department. Habitat…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
