Southern Oregon

The three ocean salmon alternatives that everybody in the California and Oregon Klamath Management Zones (KMZ) have been waiting for are finally out and listed on the PFMC website (pcouncil.org). Fishermen were hoping that if they weren't able to fish the Oregon KMZ (from the Oregon/California border up to Humbug Mountain), that they would at least be able to experience some...
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Richard Heap is currently at a PFMC meeting in Vancouver, Washington, fighting for whatever ocean salmon season he can scrounge out for the Oregon Klamath Management Zone (Oregon KMZ) which includes the Port of Brookings Harbor and spans from the California/Oregon border up to Humbug Mountain. Unfortunately, due to two specific rivers' salmon that are swimming in the ocean, the...
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What is undoubtedly the most-important meeting of the Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) regarding ocean groundfish, Pacific halibut and salmon will be taking place this week from March 7 - 13 at the Hilton Vancouver Hotel in Vancouver, Washington. During that meeting, the 2017 Preseason Report I for ocean salmon stock abundance projections will be adopted. "Preliminarily, it looks like we may have...
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The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife always hopes to achieve their goal of taking 120 winter steelhead from the Chetco River in order to spawn and release 50,000 winter steelhead smolts back into the Chetco. And they haven't done all that bad over the last quarter century accomplishing that goal either, especially when you look at the statistics given in...
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Fishermen of all ages lined up elbow-to-elbow Citizen's Dock in Crescent City Harbor last week, jigging for Pacific herring that make their annual spawning migration into the harbor every year.  This year, the silver-sided baitfish arrived at Crescent City Harbor on Saturday, February 11.  Full 6-gallon buckets of herring averaging between 8 and 10 inches were the rule, and many...
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With over one week of fishless days due to high, turbid and muddy water, fishermen on the Chetco and lower Rogue rivers were left hanging high and dry all of last week, grounded by Mother Nature's merciless wind and rain. But if you are wondering if and when you will ever be able to fish for your rivers' highly-prized winter steelhead...
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