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Fishing/Hunting

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

Updated 2 months ago

FISHING REPORT: Largemouth fishing excellent, smallmouth good at Potholes

MARDON — Largemouth bass fishing has been excellent this week. Fish top water baits early and late and have a Senk…

Updated 10 years, 2 months ago
Learn about survival and live

After reading the past two parts to this series and columns about survival in past years, readers are sure to realize passing along information about survival …

Updated 10 years, 3 months ago
Special hunt permit results available

Just in case you haven’t found out yet, the results of the 2016 hunt permit draw are available online. Well maybe. The fish and wildlife website has been down for a while and not all of the pages are available.

Updated 10 years, 3 months ago
The Fishin' Magician

Updated 10 years, 3 months ago
Proper equipment essential to survival

This is the second of a three-part series about survival skills.

Updated 10 years, 3 months ago
Don't touch young wildlife

Seeing a young deer, elk or other species of wildlife along and just standing alone pulls on heartstrings. But, you must, repeat, you must, not touch the anima…

Updated 10 years, 3 months ago
Dave Graybill: The Fishin' Magician

I was invited to join Austin Moser to do a two-lake adventure on Monday of this week.

Updated 10 years, 3 months ago
Years have passed, but the feeling was the same

My, my has it really been 41 years? No, it has been longer. My Army career began on Feb. 1, 1966. Fellow classmate, Richard Soden, and I joined together and he…

Updated 10 years, 3 months ago
Fresh News from MarDon

The Feel Free to Fish Weekend is this upcoming weekend, June 11-12. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife encourages people to go outside and fish any state water without buying a fishing license.

Updated 10 years, 3 months ago
The Fishin' Magician

Friday, June 10

Updated 10 years, 3 months ago
Free Fishing Weekend is here

Here is a chance to take the family fishing. Plus Mom and Dad can fish, even if they don’t have a current fishing license. Read on.

Updated 10 years, 3 months ago
Survival skills a matter of life and death for some

This is the first of a three-part series about survival skills.

Updated 10 years, 3 months ago
Fresh News from MarDon

Walleye fishing on Potholes Reservoir is really picking up. The larger fish have been showing up at the power lines in Crab Creek and the front of the dunes, they are both producing using slow death and double wham…

Updated 10 years, 3 months ago
Moose on the loose

Linnette Jones called me on Saturday. She wanted my e-mail address in order to send me a photo of a moose she saw earlier in the day.

Updated 10 years, 3 months ago
The Fishin' Magician

Wednesday, June 1

Updated 10 years, 3 months ago
Quest for comb becomes complicated

So there I was, minding my own business, when …