Southern Oregon


High Water Ushers in Chetco Steelhead; Lower Rogue Metal
Southern Oregon
by Larry Ellis, JANUARY 26, 2019

Chetco River

Exactly one week ago, long-awaited rains raised the Chetco River to 30,500 cubic feet per second and after it started dropping to an Irish green hue on Wednesday and Thursday, anglers plunking Spin-N-Glos from the bank started walloping chrome-bright metalhead. Winter steelhead were being caught on Wednesday when the river was in the 6,000-plus cubic feet per second arena, but the...
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Chetco River Steelhead Fair - Lower Rogue River Kicking Out Steel
Southern Oregon
by Larry Ellis, JANUARY 19, 2019

Rogue Bay

Last week, anglers on the Chetco River had to settle for steelhead fishing rated as fair, which is better than the slow days that have haunted the best of fishing guides in recent weeks. But, with another storm lurking on the horizon, who knows what the fishing will be like next week after the high water starts dropping and clearing.  One...
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Anticipated Storms Should Help Steelhead Fishing
Southern Oregon
by Larry Ellis, JANUARY 4, 2019

Chetco River

Chetco River flows have lowered to nearly 1,100 cfs, making the fishing ‘tough’ at best. But according to Harvey Young, owner of Fishawk River Company, the numbers of steelhead have not been as high as they usually are in early January. “There are some of the best fishermen hitting the river,” says Young. “If they only get one fish a day,...
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First Robust Steelhead Runs Enter the Chetco
Southern Oregon
by Larry Ellis, DECEMBER 29, 2018

Chetco River

This is the message I’ve been waiting for all of December. I received a text message last week from a friend who sent me photographs of some nice, corpulent winter steelhead caught on the Chetco River. Jason Dimmick, who took his two daughters, Sunnie and Aspen, fishing, were plunking Tequila Sunrise Spin-N-Glos at a lower river hole. The river was dropping...
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The Plunker's Bible
Southern Oregon
by Larry Ellis, DECEMBER 22, 2018

Chetco River

They’re here, they’re finally here!  I’m talking about the badly-needed rain that the southern Oregon and northern California coast has desperately needed.  And it couldn’t have happened a monsoon too soon! Heavy rains hammered the southern Oregon coast last week, and the National Weather Service has predicted that a very large blow-out will be occurring on the Chetco River this weekend...
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Drift-Fish Your Way into a Steelhead's Mouth
Southern Oregon
by Larry Ellis, DECEMBER 15, 2018

Chetco River

It’s almost time to catch your first steelhead of the winter season, and if you’re a bank fisherman, drift-fishing is a prime way of getting them to bite. Whether you’re fishing the Chetco River or North Fork of the Coquille, every river has its favored drift-fishing water flows. Notice that I didn’t mention the word “hot-spots”, mainly because hotspots can change...
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