News: The Columbian Fishing Report Feb 27
By Terry Otto, Columbian staff writer Go to full article
Spring Chinook fishing in the Columbia River has been slow. A few spring Chinook are being caught in the Willamette River.
Trout fishing continues to be good in local lakes.
Steelheading in the Columbia and area tributaries is slow.
Fishing for warm water species is slow, although walleye fishing is improving.
News: Projections of low spring Chinook returns limit Columbia River fishing seasons
Low projections for Chinook returns to Columbia are reducing harvest figures.
News: Coho salmon prediction: More than twice 2018
Oh how I hope this is true, only caught a few in 2018.
News: ODFW Fish Stocking Schedule
Check for places near you stocking for Free Fishing Weekend, and all year stocking.
News: ODFW Free Fishing Weekend Feb 16 & 17th
While watching the storm this weekend, plan for Oregon’s Free Fishing Weekend next week.
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2019 Sportsmen's Show - Portland Expo Center - Feb 6-10th
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He turned a crank that funneled a mix of hatchery and wild fish from a holding pen into the cage. The fish were corralled in the river by a wall of netting, stretched across a network of pilings that reach out about 30 yards from the bank. Now, they were swimming around him — so close he could pick out the hatchery fish one by one.
by Cassandra Profit OPB Jan. 16, 2019
This week extra-large brood trout will be released at several locations around the Willamette Valley, including Sheridan Pond, Cottage Grove Pond, Timber Linn Lake, Waverly Lake, Walling Pond and Walter Wirth Lake.
FNS Fishing Report: Netarts Bay crabbing report December 31, 2018
I had heard reports of very good crabbing, and was hopeful to end 2018 with limits of crab for both of us, with perhaps a few bonus red rock crab added to the mix.
News: Scent Research Could Help More Salmon Find Their Way Home
“The idea is to keep the wild fish wild and hatchery fish in the hatchery,” Huff said.