Summers in the Northwest are special, but fall is my favorite season for fishing. That’s because lake fishing can be very good as trout try to fatten up for the winter. And Puget Sound’s rivers are ...

SEA-RUN CUTTHROAT trout don’t typically inspire the same sort of crowds as their salmon counterparts. Still, a day targeting the anadromous trout is often much more eventful, largely because cutthroat ...

For those who have never been the notion of cutthroat fishing is a misnomer of sorts. Winter steelhead and spring king seasons on the banks of the Cowlitz have long been notorious for ...

PUGET SOUND – It was cold – about 40 degrees – damp and cloudy. It was also early in the morning. Most people in South Sound were just rolling out of warm beds – and they probably weren’t happy about ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The U.S Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service did not give Columbia River and southwestern Washington populations of the coastal cutthroat ...

It may not be as famous as salmon or steelhead, but the elusive seagoing cutthroat trout has a growing cheering squad among anglers in the Puget Sound region. Every coastal cutthroat is a wild fish ...