Fishing report: Low returns expected to restrict Washington’s salmon fisheries.
By Terry Otto, Columbian staff writer
By Lynda V. Mapes Seattle Times environment reporter
Like its old-growth trees, the Northwest’s big, old chinook salmon are largely gone, a new study finds, with implications for Puget Sound’s critically endangered southern resident killer whales.
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Can't wait for the year's first spring chinook, but patience is a virtue.
News: Saltwater Sportsmen's Show this Weekend!
February 24th & 25th.
LOCATION Oregon State Fairgrounds 2330 17th St. NE, Salem, OR
Video: A look back at April/May 2017
Spring Chinook Takedown - A look back at April/May 2017. Fishing with David Pyle.
Fishing Report: Hagg Lake
Trout at Hagg Lake, but wet and windy!
News: Spring Chinook season comes into focus
Columbia River anglers will apparently have 38 days between Bonneville Dam and I-5 Bridge.
By Terry Otto, Columbian staff writer
More fish!! Just in time to cast your poles during Free Fishing Weekend. On Tuesday they delivered 18,400 legals, 800 trophy, and 400 trophy+ size fish.
The Oregon Department of Agriculture and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announce the immediate closure of all recreational crabbing on the southern Oregon coast from Cape Blanco to the California border due to elevated levels of domoic acid. This includes Dungeness and red rock crab harvested in bays and estuaries, and on beaches, docks, piers, and jetties.
Commercial crab from south coast must be eviscerated to protect public health
Fishing Report: Bottom Fishing February 10, 2018
We left Portland at 5:30 a.m. and headed to Garibaldi for the first bottom fishing trip of 2018 in my 20’ Weldcraft, had two friends with me, Mark and Mitch.
Ling Cod, Black Fish, and small amount of Crab for the days effort.
News: (Lower) Willamette two-rod rule to take effect for salmon March 1
Oregon anglers will get to use two rods each on the Clackamas and lower Willamette rivers (below the falls) beginning March 1.
By Bill Monroe For The Oregonian/OregonLive
News: Enter to Win a FishnSleep "Flasher Rack" @ Sportsman Show this weekend.
Enter to win a FishnSleep Triangle "Flasher Rack" with "Flasher Box"