Fishing Articles

Swell Day on The Sac
Ramblings
by John Higley, OCTOBER 10, 2018
Sacramento River - Upper

Last Friday, thanks to my pal Mike Bogue, a chap who has been guiding anglers full time on the Sacramento River for 27 years, I got the chance to ride along on a king salmon fishing expedition. With us was Cal Kellogg, another friend and the editor of the Fish Sniffer news magazine. Our goal was to catch a salmon...
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Weather has changed
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, OCTOBER 7, 2018
Trinity River

The weather has changed and we are definitely into fall weather. The water year for 2018 -2019 began October 1 and Willow Creek has received 0.9 inches of rain. On Oct. 3 Douglas City and Lewiston had a heavy rain cell come into their area and dropped 0.25 to 0.50 inches of rain that caused a wall of mud to...
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Southern Oregon Bays Producing Salmon
Southern Oregon
by Larry Ellis, OCTOBER 6, 2018
Rogue Bay

An unusually high amount of jack Chinook with a few big kings mixed in crossed the Rogue and Chetco bars last week, enough fish to keep fishermen trolling spinnerbait rigs. In the Rogue bay, if you didn’t have one on, someone around you did. And that’s what keeps people on the water, knowing that there are fish to be caught. “We have...
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Metolius Pond closes for winter after successful summer opening
by ODFW, OCTOBER 5, 2018
Metolius River

Metolius Pond, which is open to fishing for youth and disabled anglers only, will be closed to public entry from now until May 1, 2019. The pond on ODFW property in Camp Sherman opened this summer and was last stocked with trout on Labor Day. It will be stocked again in time for the May 1 opening next year. “The pond has...
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Hunter Creek closes to fall chinook angling October 15
by ODFW, OCTOBER 5, 2018

Beginning Monday, October 15, angling for fall chinook salmon in Hunter Creek is closed for the remainder of the season which ends December 31. This emergency regulation was triggered by 2013 Rogue Fall Chinook Conservation Plan measures to protect this small population of fall chinook. The plan calls for a minimum of 300 fall chinook migrating upstream; however, ODFW biologists forecast just 234...
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Weather, water lining up for Friday tuna run
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, OCTOBER 4, 2018
Humboldt County Coast

Humboldt tuna fisherman looking for a little redemption may soon get another opportunity. The ocean on Friday is looking good, and the warm water is close – roughly 30 miles northwest of the Eureka entrance. The middle of September produced some of the best tuna fishing anyone can possibly remember, but the fishing since has been mostly a bust. A fleet of boats ventured...
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