Southern Oregon

Southern Oregon ocean salmon aficionados are all trembling like the shaky legs of a newborn fawn, full of nervous energy whose outcome is yet uncertain. That is because today, May 28, marks the beginning of the salmon season in the Oregon KMZ, officially the opening day of the all-salmon-except-coho season for the area from Humbug Mountain south to the Oregon/California...
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Fishing for rockfish and lingcod continued to thrill Brookings-area anglers last week as flat-calm ocean conditions beckoned anglers to throw their favorite rockfish and lingcod lures.  Most people were catching their rockfish and lings anywhere from Bird Island uphill toward Mack Arch, however the bottom grabbers were caught downhill toward Akin Point as well.  Limits were common, with a plethora of...
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After considerable disagreement and intransigence occurred among organizations who were discussing salmon-allotment issues during a meeting held in Vancouver, Washington by the PFMC last week, problems were resolved and the ocean salmon seasons for 2016 were finally set at 4:30 pm on Thursday. The Klamath Management Zones (KMZ) seasons for both California and Oregon will be quite different than usual as...
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SURFPERCH - LINGCOD DRAW ANGLERS TO BROOKINGS AND GOLD BEACH Last week's flat-calm seas and sunny weather drew anglers to fish the ocean out of the Port of Brookings Harbor and try their hand at some pretty fine surfperch fishing from shoreline venues from Crissey Field at the Oregon/California border up to Gold Beach. On Thursday the Port of Brookings Harbor's parking...
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Whenever the southern Oregon and northern California coast gets hammered by relentless storms and buckets of rain day after day, a person starts to wonder if it will ever end.  But as I sit here writing this column, I am looking at a trout schedule for Garrison Lake and remembering the fun I had on this particular waterbody last year,...
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