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Fishing/Hunting

Find the best local fishing spots and public hunting lands in the Columbia Basin!

Updated 2 days, 21 hours ago

Ephrata Youth Fishing Derby Saturday

EPHRATA — The Ephrata Lions Club will host its annual Youth Fishing Derby from 6 to 8 a.m. this Saturday at Ping P…

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
How to prepare and cook a wild turkey

Two tagged turkeys were in back of the Ram, now what? My wild turkeys are skinned after a successful hunting trip. This year the procedure was changed a bit.

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Dave Vedder downs first turkey

Dave Vedder, a friend and book author, now lives in Wenatchee. He is a seasoned angler, specializing in salmon and steelhead, although he will go after anythin…

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Chasing turkey

Hunting wild turkeys has been an annual subject of this column. The fall general turkey season has been the target.

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
2019 Okanogan County bear and cougar hunting prospects

This is another in a series of columns containing 2019 hunting prospects. Columbia Basin hunters pursuing black bear and cougar might want to travel north. Today we offer a condensed version of this year’s bear hun…

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
2019 Elk hunting prospects

This is another in a series of columns containing 2019 hunting prospects. Today we offer a condensed version of this year’s elk hunting prospects for Grant and Adams counties, also known as District 5 by Fish and W…

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
Deer prospects continued

Today we backtrack a bit and then continue with the prospects for hunting deer in the Columbia Basin.

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
2019 deer hunting prospects in the Columbia Basin

This is the fourth of several columns containing 2019 hunting prospects.

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
2019 hunting prospects continued

This is the third of several columns containing 2019 hunting prospects.

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
2019 hunting prospects continued

This is the second of several columns containing 2019 hunting prospects.

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
2019 hunting prospects

This is the first of several columns containing 2019 hunting prospects.

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
The Game Transport Form will help local hunters

Page 94 of the Washington Big-Game 2019 Hunting Seasons & Regulations states: “Transporting game or portions of meat taken by somebody else (WAC 220-200-120): …

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
First-hunt-of-the-year suggestions

There is a time when anglers and hunters can combine both consumptive sports in one day.

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
Big-game youth hunts and more

We recently discussed youth hunts.

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
Youth seasons beneficial

This is the third of a multi-part series about the upcoming hunting seasons.

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
A chance to explore Odessa Craters

ODESSA — Just north of Odessa lies a trail that allows visitors to explore a unique landscape created by the floods that scoured much of the region thousands o…