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Shelton’s Brittany Ann Lynn caught this halibut while fishing out of Sekiu last month. The size and frequency of halibut hookups has increased with better weather and tides.

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OUTDOORS: Peninsula recreational sites hit by Department of Natural Resources cuts

THERE WAS MOMENTARY confusion when reading a recent state Department of Natural Resources announcement trumpeting the closure of…

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OUTDOORS: Water-repellant paper shortage forces quicker switch to mobile fishing/hunting licenses

GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN interruptions aren’t something a fisherman usually has to deal with, unless you are a halibut…

Another week of spring razor clam digs on the outer coast will begin Thursday. (WDFW)

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OUTDOORS: Razor clam digs return Thursday

OLYMPIA — Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife shellfish managers confirmed this week that the final coastal razor…

Lorin Bell shows off a hatchery chinook caught while fishing off Sekiu last July 4. Hatchery chinook quota for the 2026 Sekiu summer salmon season has been cut by 1,000 fish this year.

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OUTDOORS: Sekiu takes brunt of king cuts

A SUMMERTIME CHINOOK quota reduction in exchange for the return of an April blackmouth fishery is the ultimate…

Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News Morgan Duffy of Port Angeles, has her dad Joshua Duffy hold the fish she caught at the 2025 Kids’ Fishing Derby at Lincoln Park. The 2026 edition of the derby is set for Saturday at Lincoln Park. Sequim’s Kid Fishing Day is set for April 18 at Carrie Blake Park.

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OUTDOORS: Kid’s Fishing Derby Saturday in Port Angeles

Kid’s Fishing Day April 18 in Sequim

Razor clam season on the outer Olympic Peninsula coast opens today. (Steve Fogo/WDFW)

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OUTDOORS: WDFW approves coastal razor clam digs beginning today

OLYMPIA — Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife shellfish managers confirmed last week, razor clam digging opportunities at…

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OUTDOORS: King season similar to 2025, salt water coho fishing could be constrained by river returns

A CHINOOK SEASON similar to 2025, with a coho fishery that could be limited in Puget Sound’s Marine…

Chilsey McKee caught this good-sized halibut along the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

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OUTDOORS: Halibut derby returning to PA

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND will see the reintroduction of what had become an annual outdoors tradition, the Port Angeles…

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OUTDOORS: Sportsman’s Show in Puyallup all weekend; razor digs at the coast

Sportsman’s show to run this weekend

Chase Gunnell/State Department of Fish and Wildlife An angler casts for winter steelhead while fishing an undisclosed river on the Olympic Peninsula.

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OUTDOORS: Olympic Peninsula steelhead shake off potential federal Endangered Species Act listing

STATE AND TRIBAL co-managers, steelhead anglers and West End residents can all breathe a little easier after this…

Washington State Guides Association Portland’s Grace Melville caught this hatchery steelhead with a Hawkins jig while fishing on an unnamed Olympic Peninsula river.

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OUTDOORS: Shellfish dig changes slated Jan. 1 in Jefferson County

Razor clam digs Dec. 31-Jan. 6

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OUTDOORS: Severity, frequency of storms increasing

STORMS OF THE century, 100-year floods, a perplexing Heat Dome, wildfires turning Seattle into New Dehli — all…

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OUTDOORS: Transition to mobile licenses beginning

MORE CELL PHONES plunging to the bottom of water bodies is the unintended consequence expected after the state…

NOAA A Steller sea lion voices his displeasure along a rocky Pacific Coast tideland.

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Outdoors: Sea lion numbers, appetites grow

Makah-Western Washington University study provides data on sea lion diet

Port Angeles’ Kenny Riggs caught this 78.7-pound halibut on the final day of the 2016 Port Angeles Salmon Club Halibut Derby to win the $5,000 first prize. This was the last halibut derby held by the club due to reduced halibut seasons.

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OUTDOORS: Salmon club eyes derby return

AS PART OF a push to grow membership numbers and reestablish some fishing traditions, the Port Angeles Salmon…

Nate Treat holds up a hatchery steelhead caught while fishing on the Bogachiel River near Forks. The Quillayute, Bogachiel and Calawah rivers will have a two hatchery steelhead limit through Feb. 28. The Hoh River also will have a two-hatchery steelhead limit through Feb. 15.

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OUTDOORS: Hatchery steelhead limit dropped out west

WITH PRESEASON FORECASTS of decreased seasonal wild steelhead returns, fish managers with the state Department of Fish and…

Mark Elbroch/Olympic Cougar Project A North Olympic Peninsula cougar peers down from its perch in a cedar tree. Heart of a Lion, a documentary featuring the work of Olympic Cougar Project biologist Mark Elbroch, will be screened Nov. 14 at Peninsula College.

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OUTDOORS: Film spotlights area apex predator

A CHANCE TO witness the most elusive alpha predator on the North Olympic Peninsula comes with the full-length…

Seattle’s Dave Sivret fished for coho off of Sekiu during the wild silver opener last weekend. Coho fishing is open through Oct. 9 in Marine Area 5.

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OUTDOORS: Wild coho season on through Oct. 9 at Sekiu

SEKIU PRODUCED PLENTY of silvers for the switch to a wild-retention fishery last weekend.

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OUTDOORS: Razor clam digs announced

OLYMPIA — Shellfish managers with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife this week announced 47 tentative days…

Gunnar Fjelstul set the state’s spear fishing record for halibut, catching this 58-pound flatfish while freediving over the weekend at Neah Bay. Fjelstul already held the state spearfish records for lingcod (31.34) and blue rockfish (5.08), both caught off Neah Bay in 2023.

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OUTDOORS: Freediver spears record halibut

ANOTHER STATE FISHING record fell over the weekend, as spear gunner Gunnar Fjelstul entered the record books for…