Every year, America’s Rivers calls out the 10 rivers that are under the most threat from development, pollution, regulatory losses, and a variety of other stressors. As always, these rivers are some of the top fishing rivers in the United States, and at the top of that list is the Potomac River. The group is [...]
Washington Fishing
Six Fish Species Rebound Thanks To Catch Limits?
NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service is touting the success of their fisheries management strategies as six populations of fish have returned to healthy levels. In a report delivered to Congress, they have shown that the Bering Sea snow crab, the summer flounder on the mid-Atlantic coast, the haddock in the Gulf of Maine, the Chinook salmon [...]
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Cabela’s Unveils Locations of Wanna Go Fishing for Millions Fish
Last year, Cabela’s started their “Wanna Go Fishing for Millions” campaign, and this year, they hoping it gets more people on the water, and more people to download their Recon Fish app, as anglers look for the fish that will win them $2 million. Anglers were able to hit the waters in 19 states (Arizona, Colorado, [...]
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Oregon Wants to Kill Cormorants to Save Salmon
They are killing sea lions in the name of salmon management in Oregon and Washington, and now Oregon wants to add cormorants to their most wanted list. Cormorants are migratory birds that are veracious fish eaters, and their populations are booming in Oregon. According to the Seattle Times there are more than 27,000 birds at [...]
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Reef Sharks: In Deep Peril
According to a study published over the weekend in the journal Conservation Biology and reported in today’s Washington Post, populations of Pacific reef sharks, including white tip, black tip, gray, Galapagos, and tawny nurse sharks, have plunged by 90% in recent decades. Here’s an excerpt from the article in the Post: Near populated places, such [...]
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37-Foot Gray Whale’s Death Puzzles Scientists
A 37-foot adult gray whale washed up dead in Washington state’s Puget Sound with a golf ball, pieces of rope and sweat pants in its stomach. But all this debris was not the cause of death. Scientists are still unsure about what exactly killed the whale. The whale shows no sign of trauma or entanglement [...]
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Two 31-Plus-Pound Brown Trout Landed in Wisconsin Tournament
The Baileys Harbor Brown Trout Tournament entered its 24th year with a bang. In what some are calling a single tournament record, two anglers brought in 31-plus-pound trout to the scales. In the end, Jim Dequaine took the more than $1,500 prize back for landing a 31.9-pound brown trout. This to the chagrin of Ryan [...]
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Shedd Aquarium Offers to Take Next Captured Sea Lion from Washington
The controversy of what to do with the burgeoning sea lion population near the Bonneville Dam in Washington state is still raging, as officials have now killed four sea lions. And now the Shedd Aquarium has stepped up to give everyone an ideal solution. According to Huffington Post, the Chicago-based aquarium has said that they [...]
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Is Pebble Mine Dead?
Last night, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership held their annual awards dinner honoring Berkley and Tom Bedell (of Berkley Fishing fame), Senator Ronald Wyden and Congressman Robert Wittman. But the real highlight was probably TRCP President and CEO Whit Fosberg breaking news that the open pit mine proposed for Bristol Bay is dead. The open [...]
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Lake Chelan Adventures Fishing Report April 11th, 2012
April 11th, 2012 Lake Chelan laketrout Fishing remains real good in the Lower Basin for Nice Laketrout!! Today I chad the pleasure of taking Dave Schuster and Ray Kubista out for a 4hour Adventure..We started on Mack Bar to bang 4 fish on our first pass then moved to Minneapolis Beach to finish with 7 [...]
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