A fisheries agency is asking for public input on whether to list a salmon from the Columbia River Basin as an endangered species. The agency isn’t from Washington state or even the United States: It’s ...

For decades, Okanogan Country’s “Lakes of Legend” have attracted families from across the state to come and experience the excellent trout fishing the region’s lakes and rivers have to offer. The ...

FISHING — Effective immediately, sockeye fishing is open and for retention and total salmon limits have been increased on the Okanogan and Similkameen rivers now that enough fish have moved up the ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - People who wait for perfect weather miss a lot of good fishing," said Jerrod Gibbons, blowing warm breath on his numb fingers recently after releasing a bright, fat steelhead in the ...

FISH – A temporary picket-style salmon weir recently has been installed on the Okanogan River about 15 miles upstream from its confluence with the Columbia River near Brewster, the Colville Tribe ...

More areas are opening for sockeye fishing as the Columbia River return continues to wax expectations. The updated sockeye run is 340,000 and exceeded the preseason forecast of 102,000 returning to ...

Reporting from BREWSTER, Wash. — Here at the confluence of the Okanogan and Columbia rivers, tens of thousands of sockeye and chinook salmon stage themselves every summer in an underwater base camp, ...