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Outdoors

What's there to do in the great outdoors? Here we've got a bevy of local outdoor activities and destinations to explore.

Updated 3 days, 17 hours ago

North Idaho Bear Fair returns

Updated 8 years, 2 months ago
Youth bass tournament Saturday in Spirit Lake

As a kid, Brett Surplus spent late summers in a 14-foot, aluminum Sea King with his grandfather fishing for kokanee in Wolf Lodge Bay.

Updated 8 years, 2 months ago
Lower Salmon River closed for Chinook

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game has closed all salmon fishing in the two remaining portions of the Lower Salmon River. The Little Salmon River will reopen to salmon fishing during this next four-day interval …

Updated 8 years, 2 months ago
Straight as an arrow

By RALPH BARTHOLDT

Updated 8 years, 2 months ago
New trespassing, animal salvage and trapper laws begin soon

Many new Idaho laws that passed in the last legislative session take effect July 1, including laws that affect outdoor recreationists such as hunters, anglers and trappers.

Updated 8 years, 2 months ago
Bass busters make state team

By RALPH BARTHOLDT

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Killer bacteria found in Alaska moose, caribou

A harmful bacteria previously thought to live only in sheep and goats has been found in Alaska caribou and moose, according to a study announced last week by t…

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Casual cast nets 25- pound pike for Hayden man fishing from shore

You can find Don Dorame on many weekends in summer fishing the edges of Hayden Lake from a 14-foot Klamath aluminum boat with a 15 horsepower Johnson that leav…

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Record size trout prowl little Idaho lake

By ERIC BARKER

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Biologists asking angler help to collect SL chinook fin clips

Anglers who catch a chinook salmon in Spirit Lake are asked to provide a fin clip for biologists to use as part of a statewide chinook salmon study.

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Fish tales, roadside casting and the gospel of garlic on Fernan

By RALPH BARTHOLDT

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Shortened Chinook fishing and bag limits on Lower Salmon and Little Salmon rivers

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game Commission changed fishing to four days per week, Thursday through Sunday, on the Lower Salmon and Little Salmon rivers starting Saturday, June 9, and anglers will also have a …

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
There's no discounting old school travel comfort

Honer’s dad made Winnebagos.

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Controlled hunt applications are back online, deadline to apply is today

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game’s licensing system has resumed operating and people can apply for controlled hunts online, at license and tag vendors, at Fish and Game offices and via telephone at 800-554-868…

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Commission sets Chinook seasons for South Fork Salmon, Upper Salmon, Lochsa

Idaho Department of Fish and Game Commission on June 6 set the Chinook fishing seasons on the South Fork of the Salmon, Upper Salmon and Lochsa rivers to open June 23.

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Steamboat Pond heats up for Free Fishing Day

By RALPH BARTHOLDT