The reels are spooled and the crews are ready. Over the past few months, fishing charters from Chinook to Westport have been ...

ILWACO — Several local charter skippers and crewmen could be reeling in hefty fines and jail sentences. Following a nine-month Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife investigation, the state in ...

Fishermen from a legal charter have their salmon checked by a WDFW sampler upon returning to the Port of Ilwaco recently. ILWACO, Wash. — Enforcement officers with the Washington Department of Fish ...

Ilwaco sits on the inside edge of a peninsula called Cape Disappointment, and the name is appropriate. The community revolves around the fishing industry, which in turn relies on acceptable weather ...

Saltwater fishing is hot at Ilwaco and Westport. It has also been good at Sekiu for pink salmon. Ilwaco charters are limiting very early with mostly silvers and a few chinook. The story is the same at ...

Herring and saury are the bait of choice for bottom fishing. ILWACO — The movie “Grease” was just beginning to grace screens across the country. Pete Rose had just reached his 3,000th hit. A gallon of ...

FISHING -- Reports from the first week of the ocean salmon fishing season off the Washington Coast confirm the predictions that this is a season for the record books. "At Marine Area 1 (Ilwaco), ...

OLYMPIA — The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission is being asked to allow a “miniscule small” sturgeon retention season in the lower Columbia River in 2014. Washington and Oregon plan to permit no ...