Southern Oregon

Southern Oregon
by Larry Ellis, FEBRUARY 26, 2016
Bird Island

With the ocean as flat as a sheet of liquid mercury, salty dogs outside the Port of Brookings Harbor also saw plenty of lingcod action between Bird Island and House Rock. "The fishing was so good it was just plain stupid," said Captain Jim Bithell of Charthouse Sportfishing. "We got our lingcod on all of those herring I jigged at Crescent...
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Chetco Metal
Southern Oregon
by Larry Ellis, FEBRUARY 26, 2016
Chetco River

The Chetco River continued to kick out plenty of fresh incoming heavy metalheads as well as a bounty of downback steelhead heading back to sea. The ratio was about 3 downers for every fresh steelhead, and the action is expected to continue throughout the week by boat anglers deploying primarily side-drifting methods and by bank anglers using drift-fishing techniques.

Rogue River Springer
Southern Oregon
by Larry Ellis, FEBRUARY 26, 2016
Rogue River- Lower

On Wednesday we had the first Springer caught and released. The fish was wild so it had to go back into the river as this time of year only hatchery Springers can be kept.

First Lower Rogue River Springer of 2016
Southern Oregon
by Larry Ellis, FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I remember when the Mag Lip 4.5 was originally called the M2-SP FlatFish. The Mag Lip is a popular lure used to catch just about everything that swims in a river. Anyway back in the M2-SP days, you had to know the difference between an M2 and an M2-SP because they were both two completely different animals. It is easy...
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Uppers, Downers Plug Local-Area Rivers
Southern Oregon
by Larry Ellis, FEBRUARY 19, 2016
Chetco River

The Chetco River fished quite well last week with the river maintaining between 1,500 and 1,800 cubic feet per second. The upper river holes were running quite clear but surprisingly some of the lower runs, say from Loeb State Park down to Social Security Bar were colored up enough for a few drift-boaters like Andy Martin from Wild Rivers...
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Herring Run Peaks at Crescent City; Uppers, Downers Plug Local-Area Rivers
Southern Oregon
by Larry Ellis, FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Every angler loves to think that he or she has it all figured out when it comes to predicting just how long the Pacific herring run will last in Crescent City Harbor. So it's hard to believe that the herring run is already a done deal when it just barely got started. "They just went away," said Loren Taylor of...
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