It’s hot as hell. You’re sweaty and thirsty and hungry and now you have to tie on a new hook. You can’t tie the hook because you can’t see and your readers are over there between the cooler and bait ...

Washington officials have had an itch for years to shift to barbless hooks for salmon and steelhead sport fishing in the Columbia River. It’s been proposed — then postponed because Oregon was not on ...

The Yukon government is rethinking some controversial fishing regulations as the angling season approaches. The move to barbless hooks is being put on hold. The use of barbed hooks makes it difficult ...

Anglers in Washington could soon have the choice to fish with barbed hooks while pursuing salmon, steelhead and other species in much of the Columbia River Basin. The Washington Fish and Wildlife ...

Anglers in Washington could soon have the choice to fish with barbed hooks while pursuing salmon, steelhead and other species in much of the Columbia River Basin. The Washington Fish and Wildlife ...

Oregon is rethinking its barbless hook requirement in the lower Willamette River and anglers may have sea lions to thank. Biologists for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will ask the Fish ...

Changes, some significant, are in store for hunting and angling in Oregon next year, but anglers want the state’s Fish and Wildlife Commission to take a special look at perhaps the biggest, as-yet ...

State officials are proposing to allow resumption of fishing with barbed hooks for spring chinook salmon at Wind River and Drano Lake. Barbless hooks have been required since 2013 at the two popular ...

Anglers may use barbed hooks for hatchery salmon and trout on the Cowlitz River from Lexington Drive Bridge (Sparks Road Bridge) up to 400 feet or posted markers below the barrier dam from July 1-31.

At the Aug. 2 meeting in Salem, Ore, the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission refused an agency request to make barbless hooks voluntary on the Columbia River for salmon and steelhead fisheries. The ...