Hi, I'm Daniel.
By profession I'm a Technology Architect — someone who designs complex systems, thinks in structures, and builds things meant to last. By passion, I'm a Pacific Northwest hunter and angler who has spent the last decade learning to read tides, scout clearcuts, dial in downrigger depths, and bring home halibut big enough to need two hands.
Those two worlds don't overlap as much as you'd think. The PNW outdoors is vast, the regulations change constantly, and the learning curve for a new salmon angler or first-time bear hunter is genuinely steep. Finding reliable, Washington-specific information used to mean piecing together forum threads, outdated PDFs, and word-of-mouth from people who've been doing this for thirty years.
I built PNW Hunting & Fishing to fix that.
Why I Built This Site
When I started fishing Puget Sound seriously, I kept running into the same wall: generic fishing advice written for some other state, regulations buried in 200-page PDFs, and no single place that connected live tide data, emergency rules, species guides, and gear recommendations in one spot. A technologist's instinct is to build the tool that doesn't exist yet.
Every guide on this site comes from real experience on Washington waters and in Washington woods — setting crab pots in Puget Sound, trolling flasher and hoochie rigs for coho, glassing clearcuts for blacktail, and working the coast for halibut.
What I Chase
My seasons revolve around a core pursuit list: Chinook and coho salmon on Puget Sound, halibut on the Washington coast, lingcod and bottomfish over rocky structure, Dungeness crab and spot shrimp, black bear in the late summer Cascades, and deer and elk in the fall. Each one has taught me something different about patience, preparation, and reading the land and water.
The Mission
PNW Hunting & Fishing exists to empower Washington's hunting and fishing community with the tools, knowledge, and current information they need — before every trip. That means accurate season data sourced from WDFW, live tides and weather, species-specific guides written for Washington conditions, honest gear recommendations, and a community built around responsible, ethical time outdoors.
Whether you're a seasoned angler dialing in your downrigger depth or a first-time deer hunter trying to understand GMU boundaries — this site is for you.
Let's Connect
Follow along on social media for fishing reports, trip updates, gear finds, and WDFW regulation alerts. If you have questions, feedback, or want to share a trip report, reach out — this community is built by all of us.