RE: Washington State Hunting
Spearfishing is probably more akin to hunting than fishing, as you're stalking your quarry underwater with a speargun on a breath hold. It's powerful stuff.
We just got a year round, public land coyote season here in VA, so I'll be taking my rifles out more often. We have woodchucks in neighboring PA, but it's a long drive to get there for the shoots. I've never shot rock chucks before, though, and I'd look forward to more opportunity like that.