Fishing Articles

Best Baits for Norcal Steelhead
by Jeff Goodwin, NOVEMBER 13, 2017
Sacramento River - Lower

The late fall King salmon run is on its way up river and the steelhead are right behind them. We've already seen some late fall and salmon caught in the stretches of the Sacramento River below the Coleman National Fish Hatchery as well as some great hatchery steelhead. With continuous drops in the flows from Keswick Dam, the Sacramento River...
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Salmon fishing is all about rain
Southern Oregon
by Larry Ellis, NOVEMBER 11, 2017
Chetco River

November is the month when storms start pummeling the southern Oregon and northern California coastline. And to a river fisherman, storms mean only one thing - rain, beautiful droplets of salmon caffeine! And with rains come rising rivers; and with rising rivers follow the Chinook. It's the natural procession of nature. In this neck of the woods, the two main river...
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Entire Oregon coast reopened for mussel harvesting
by ODFW, NOVEMBER 10, 2017

The Oregon Department of Agriculture and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announce the reopening of recreational and commercial mussel harvesting from the south jetty of the Columbia River to the north jetty of Yaquina Bay at Newport. Shellfish samples taken from the area indicate levels of the paralytic shellfish toxin (PST) have dropped below the ;alert level. The...
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Storms open the door for coastal kings
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, NOVEMBER 9, 2017
Chetco River

The season’s first real storms are currently drenching the North Coast and putting rivers on the rise, and it looks like there’s plenty more of the wet stuff on the horizon. If the forecast holds, we should see enough rain in the next few days to open all of the rivers to fishing that are currently closed due to low...
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OHRC Board to meet Nov. 14
by ODFW, NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The Oregon Hatchery Research Center Board will meet on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017 from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Oregon Hatchery Research Center, 2418 East Fall Creek Road, Alsea OR 97324. The agenda includes an Introduction of the State Fisheries Geneticist, Dr. Kathleen O’Malley, a discussion about the OHRC Work Plan for 2018 and beyond, and election of the...
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California Fisheries Groups Sue State for Failure to Protect Impaired Waterways
by Maven's Notebook, NOVEMBER 4, 2017

From the Institute for Fisheries Resources [Originally posted on Maven's Notebook Nov. 2, 2017] Today four commercial fisheries organizations filed a lawsuit accusing the California State Water Resources Control Board (the Water Board) of failing to fulfill their responsibility to protect clean water and public trust resources in the Bay Delta and Central Valley. At issue is the state’s failure to list long-suffering Delta...
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