Oct. 18—It's been a busy week for Lance Rider. Rider owns The Outdoorsman, a store in Winthrop, Washington, and he's had a lot of customers this week buying flies and other essentials for steelhead ...

I was so bummed out about having to move on the opening weekend for summer-run steelhead on the Methow River in Eastern Washington that I asked my landlord for a reprieve. She didn’t make me beg. So I ...

WINTHROP, Wash. — It’s about an hour before sunset over the eastern Cascades. As a solitary figure steps through the grasses along the Methow River, through the brush on the only trail he walks, ...

FISHING -- Starting today, the Methow River is closed daily to fishing from 2 p.m. to midnight until further notice to reduce impact on fish stressed by warm water conditions. Here are details ...

TWISP, Okanogan County — At least it was no longer sleeting. I stood ankle-deep in the Methow River on a frigid morning last fall, picking away the ice welding my fishing line to the guides of my fly ...

Catch-and-release trout fishing on the Methow River is set to close at 12:01 a.m. Saturday to protect incoming steelhead, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department announced Friday afternoon. The ...

An Eastern Washington river is now being affected by the heat wave. State Fish and Wildlife has implemented a ruling that closes fishing on the Methow River each day between 2 p.m. and midnight from ...

Fishing for hatchery steelhead on several Columbia River tributaries, including the Wenatchee and the Methow, will open Wednesday, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife announced. Also opening are ...