Fishing/Hunting
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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…
Dave Graybill: The Fishin' Magician
I know it is only January, but kokanee fever is already taken hold here in Central Washington. Lake Roosevelt is famous for producing kokanee of state record s…
Help out when in the outdoors
My first column each year is a call to arms. This means calling on the readers to give back to the outdoors. Doing so isn’t difficult.
Fishermen travel to Moses Lake on their long weekend
MOSES LAKE — For many, the long New Year's weekend provided a chance to stay out late and sleep it off the next day. For others, it was a chance to bundle up, …
Dave Graybill: The Fishin' Magician
Happy New Year everyone! If I have a fishing season in 2016 even half as good as I had in 2015 I will be a happy guy.
Goose carcasses cause reader concern
A reader recently called with a concern about wasting game birds. He pulled into a parking lot and noticed a pile of goose carcasses. The number of birds was n…
Dennis Clay's end of year review
This has been an extraordinary year, full of sorrow at times, but full of many fine times, too.
Dave Graybill: The Fishin' Magician
I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas.
Fresh News from MarDon
Recent weather conditions in Central Washington have been great for goose hunting. Just lay under a white cover with a few decoys and get your Christmas Goose.…
Lopez tags first Washington turkey
It has been and continues to be a great hunting year for Rudy Lopez of Spokane Valley. He has notched his first elk tag, a deer tag, he shot his first pheasant…
Michael Krysinski's turkey
Capt. Michael Michael Krysinski, 36th Rescue Squadron at Fairchild Air Force Base, hunted private property in the Airway Heights area and bagged this nice hen …
Dave Graybill: The Fishin' Magician
The Wenatchee River had dropped into fishing shape after the heavy successive days of rain in the region.
Fresh News from MarDon
Walleye anglers are not fishing much this past week with colder weather and heavy evening rains. However, we have had walleye to six pounds (24 inches) reported from the Lind Coulee arm of Potholes Reservoir. Walle…
Thoughts during December 2015
All of a sudden it’s mid December. How did this happen? Well, it happens every year, I know, but this year seems different, perhaps special. The reason isn’t a…
Dave Graybill: The Fishin' Magician
If you want to fish for steelhead you had better plan on fishing the main stem Columbia River for a while.
Fresh News form MarDon
The Northern Duck and Goose Flights have reached Central Washington.