Fishing Articles

Fall Chinook salmon returning to the Chetco are on the decline, and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is proposing some pretty drastic cutbacks. In a press release issued on Monday, the ODFW is proposing temporary harvest limits and closures for coastal wild fall chinook fisheries due to low escapement in 2018 and poor forecasts for this year. Preseason...
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Although they spend their lives hidden beneath the surface, fish are directly affected by the weather happening outside their aquatic world. This is particularly true of species that rely on watersheds in regions like California, where the availability of water changes dramatically with the seasons. As climate change threatens to shift historical patterns in temperature and rain- and snowfall, scientists...
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So sorry about the report last week – I had a hitch in my get-along.   Mother Nature definitely didn’t want us to forget her this week – lots of fun weather. Beautiful sunny days, then rain, slush, snowball snow, lightening, thunder, big flake snow and lots of it and then back to beautiful sunny days. And it looks like we’ve got...
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I fished the 33rd Annual Bassin’ for Bucks tournament May 4 at Ten Mile Lakes, Oregon. I had a great time on the coast eating fish-and-chips and hanging with my brother-in-law, Steve Breth, but we got clobbered with a five fish limit of 11.56 pounds. The event was won by Jay Burford and Charles Adams from the Umpqua Valley Bassmasters club,...
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69.1cfs at 4.5 on the gauge. Official elevation is 5097.15ft as per Don Willis Lassen County surveyor. The lake has barely raised an inch since 4-23-19. We are about as high as we are going to get. Flow will be ok for the fish upstream for a while but won’t help the lake elevation now but could stave off some...
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