Paddling into a stiff headwind on Ross Lake, my buddy and I were reveling in some of the most rugged and inspiring country in the Pacific Northwest that also happened to be a fine place for some ...

The scenery’s still gorgeous, the setting full of solitude, but the fishing’s been tempered a bit at Ross Lake. With wild spawning rainbow trout runs in its tributaries in recent decline ...

The narrow slot canyon on the edge of Ross Lake was just too tempting to pass ... fishing from canoes to the flocks of mergansers hunting small fish like packs of wolves. Days after getting ...

In POLITICO’s “Washington Wall” series ... They are some of Ross’s favorite “gets” in years of hunting in his home state. “I don’t need pictures of me with people to make me ...