Outdoors
What's there to do in the great outdoors? Here we've got a bevy of local outdoor activities and destinations to explore.
Fishery: Time to rethink management plan for Lake Pend Oreille
I feel blessed to live in a region with such a good fishery and fishing legacy. I also concede that the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) accomplished q…
Steelhead run starts slow, but better than last year
This year’s summer steelhead run is starting off slow, but it is nearly threefold better than the 2017 run, which was abysmal.
A place of refuge
Cougar Bay Preserve offers visitors a two-mile interpretive hiking trail and opportunities for canoeing, kayaking and watching birds and wildlife.
Black bear breaks into zoo, gets a Fish and Game escort back to the wild
Bear breaks into zoo: it sounds like the punchline of a joke, but it recently happened at Zoo Idaho in Pocatello, and the Idaho Department of Fish and Game con…
ADVICE: On the water; first things first
It’s catching and we’ve all got a touch of it. Cabin Fever. If we’re not currently working on our boat, we are certainly thinking about getting it ready so we …
The best baits to throw today to hook up with bass and pike
By RALPH BARTHOLDT
Absolutely why you took the boat to town
On days like this we took the boat to town.
Remembering a sailor, and his sheepshank, bowline and hitches
I learned the sheepshank not because he tossed me a line and told me to tie one, testing me, like Quint in the shark movie; but because he instilled a desire to learn it.
Foul summer averted for Salmon River boaters
Riggins has been saved from a potential nasty situation.
Trophy size walleye aren't making a splash in Lake Pend Oreille
Some anglers like them, but IDFG wants them gone
Tunnel repair prompts closure of major St. Joe Forest arterial
Work on the historic Fishhook Tunnel this summer will prompt a road closure in the St. Joe National Forest beginning this month.
Diving for cash, fishing for profit
Some days we dove from the boat in the late afternoon to frog swim deep into the murk until our ears popped.
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.
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 …
Straight as an arrow
By RALPH BARTHOLDT