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Hart Mountain, Lake County
Barren rocks, bitten hard by wind and water, become ideal canvasses for nature's artistic touch.


 


Lower Rogue Bay Producing Chinook
Southern Oregon
by Larry Ellis, JULY 30, 2016



Fishing for rockfish and lingcod out of the Port of Brookings Harbor continues to be excellent, especially for those who get up early and catch the first several hours of daylight before the winds kick up. But the excitement last week was focused on the Rogue Bay, where a few lucky anglers have caught between one and two Chinook....
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Collins Lake cats dominate fish photos!
by Kathy Hess, JULY 29, 2016
Collins Lake

Alonzo Navarra from Vallejo hooked the biggest cat this week, his was a 7 lb. 12 oz. monster and he was fishing down at the Water's Edge group camp area. He was using a marshmallow & PowerBait combo. Chris Luke from Antelope used PowerBait to entice his 7 lb. 8 oz. catfish on the east side of the lake. ...
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Steelhead biting on the Lower Klamath
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, JULY 28, 2016

Klamath River

The summer steelhead bite picked up last weekend for the few boats side-drifting roe, with the best bite happening from Blue Creek down. There are still quite a few hatchery steelhead in the mix as well. The salmon bite has slowed in the estuary, and a only a handful of fall kings have been caught upriver. The salmon should start...
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Crescent City Cod on the loose
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, JULY 28, 2016

Crescent City Coast

Not much has changed this past week reports Leonard Carter of Crescent City’s Englund Marine. He said, “The wind has been blowing pretty good the last few days so no one’s been out. Last week when the boats did finally make it out, they found a real good bite on the ling cod as well as the rest of the...
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Rockfish snapping on the Trinidad Coast
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, JULY 28, 2016

Trinidad Coast

Before the weather turned crappy, there was a pretty decent salmon bite reports Curt Wilson of Wind Rose Charters out of Trinidad. “Late last week, they were biting pretty good right at Pilot Rock. There’s been a few caught since, but the effort dwindled once the weather turned. When the weather has allowed, the rockfish have really been snapping. The...
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Fishing the Eureka Coast
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, JULY 28, 2016

Eureka Coast

The weather finally got the best of the Eureka sport salmon fleet. What had been a wide-open bite for the past week was cooled by Wednesday’s rough waters. Only a few of the bigger boats chose to cross the bar into the nasty ocean on Wednesday, and the salmon were not in the biting mood. Prior to Wednesday, boats fishing...
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