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Fishing/Hunting

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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 11 years, 6 months ago
State fish art contest deadline March 31

Heads up educators - the State Fish Art Contest deadline is March 31. This allows three weeks to pass along the information about the contest to your students.

Updated 11 years, 6 months ago
Basin anglers successful

Anglers around the Columbia Basin have been successful in recent days. Martha Lake was the only water with partial failure.

Updated 11 years, 6 months ago
Fresh News from MarDon

Spring weather comes and goes many times in Central Washington before we are lucky to have stable springtime weather. The first complete weekend in March looks…

Updated 11 years, 7 months ago
Dave Graybill: The Fishin' Magician

This Sunday is a big day for trout anglers. It's the March 1st opener of many lakes in the Quincy Wildlife Area, and several others in the region.

Updated 11 years, 7 months ago
Fresh news from MarDon Resort

The seep lakes below O'Sullivan Dam are showing nice trout. All the seep lakes are open except the lakes on the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge, Warden Lake …

Updated 11 years, 7 months ago
Y.O.U. Banquet two weeks away

The Fifth Annual Y.O.U. Banquet on schedule for Feb. 28, just two weeks from tomorrow, at the Best Western Lake Front Inn.

Updated 11 years, 7 months ago
Thoughts on 24 years of Clay Feats

Anniversaries are interesting. By definition an anniversary is the annual or yearly return of the date of an event. A couple is married and on the same day in …

Updated 11 years, 7 months ago
Three rules for new husbands

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

Updated 11 years, 7 months ago
Fresh News from MarDon

Migratory ducks and geese continue to show a heavy presence in the Potholes Recreational Area, through-out the Royal Slope,the Columbia Basin National Wildlife…

Updated 11 years, 7 months ago
Fishin' Magician: Dave Graybill

While I am attending a meeting near Washington D.C., I'm missing out on some great fishing at home. High on my list of where I would like to be is Lake Rooseve…

Updated 11 years, 7 months ago
A legend passes

Charles Theodore Buck passed away last Friday, Feb. 6. He was a marvelous man. We became friends after I began writing stories and columns about the Great Outd…

Updated 11 years, 7 months ago
Dave Graybill: The Fishin' Magician

I had heard of good ice and great fishing for perch at Fish Lake, near Lake Wenatchee, so I ran up there last Saturday to see for myself.

Updated 11 years, 7 months ago
SHOT Show full of info

This is the last of a two-part series about the 2015 Shooting Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show in Las Vegas.

Updated 11 years, 7 months ago
Dave Graybill: The Fishin' Magician

Something good must be going on at Lake Roosevelt. Peggy Nevismal, who lives overlooking Spring Canyon, tells me that there were a whole bunch of boats trollin…