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Oregon Fishing Report June 13, 2013
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The Umpqua River’s redtailed surfperch run continues to dominate our area’s fishing opportunities. The fishing is gradually improving, and while some days are better than others, the fishing is definitely getting better. Last Friday was the best fishing day yet for the upriver perch and a number of boat limits were reported taken by 8 am. Sand shrimp continues to be the most popular bait, but other popular baits include Berkeley Gulp sandworms, clam necks, squid and nightcrawlers.Meanwhile,...
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Category: General
Date: 6/18/2013
Author: Pete Heley
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Oregon Fishing Report June 6, 2013
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The Umpqua River redtailed surfperch run (pinkfins) has been more productive recently with a number of bosts catching 30 or more fish and one boat with five anglers catching 65 last Sunday. However, there are lots of boats enjoying little or minimal perch fishing success. Of course I have little sympathy for the guy who called me last Saturday at 6;30, while anchored above Winchester Bay, wondering why he had not yet caught a perch - because there is no way he could have given his trip any re...
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Category: General
Date: 6/7/2013
Author: Pete Heley
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Oregon Fishing Reports May 8th, 2013
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Fishing for spring chinook has been slow, except for the area below where Rock Creek enters the North Umpqua. The entire mainstem Umpqua has been fishing very slow. Another small springer was reported takenat Half Moon Bay last week, but the lower river has not been productive for any salmon and even the feeder chinook out in the ocean were tough to find last week - partly because of bar and ocean restrictions that did not give the ocean salnon anglers much time to try to find fish. Ocean salmo...
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Category: General
Date: 5/13/2013
Author: Pete Heley
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Oregon Fishing Report April 17, 2013
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Spring chinook angling between Scottsburg and Elkton has picked up noticeably. Of course, anybody who has recently driven along that stretch of Highway 38 could already guess this from the number of truck/boat trailer rigs parked along the highway because the boat ramp parking areas are full. It seems that those light bites of the previous week have turned into bites strong enough to actually get hooked and landed.Longtime Scottsburg-area resident Rick Hoile landed a 38 pound springer last ...
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Category: General
Date: 4/24/2013
Author: Pete Heley
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Oregon Fishing Report April 10, 2013
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It was almost like karma. An angler had asked me if I had heard of any spring chinook being hooked inside the Triangle and I had told them that I had not. A couple of hours later, while I was selling a salmon tag to Christopher Edwards of Winchester Bay, he stated that a week or so previously, an angler he was fishing with had hooked and nearly landed what he felt was a spring chinook while fishing inside the Triangle. The fish appeared to weigh about ten pounds and was hooked next to the culve...
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Category: General
Date: 4/13/2013
Author: Pete Heley
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Oregon Fishing Report March 27, 2013
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After setting a one sturgeon seasonal bag limit earlier this year, the ODFW decided to increase the seasonal limit to two sturgeon. Since Jan. 1, the annual statewide bag limit has been one legal white sturgeon total for all zones statewide. According to Steve Williams, ODFW fish division deputy director, the increased bag limit is in response to a recent decision by the State of Washington to set its statewide annual sturgeon limit at two for 2013.It seems that anglers are trying much hard...
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Category: General
Date: 3/27/2013
Author: Pete Heley
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Oregon Fishing Report March 20, 2013
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The start of the ocean chinook sportfishery last Friday was uneventful as the Umpqua River Bar was closed almost the entire weekend. Evidence that there are some spring chinook available to be caught when the ocean is accessible were the chinooks (at least three) recently landed by bottomfish anglers fishing out of Winchester Bay.Umpqua River spring chinook anglers are still waiting for the first big push of springers to move upriver. It could happen anytime, but usually seems to occur in e...
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Category: General
Date: 3/23/2013
Author: Pete Heley
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Oregon Fishing Report March 13, 2013
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There has been a lot of questions about trout plants this year, mostly because with the exception of the North Coast Region, the schedules for most other areas had not yet been posted on the ODFW website. However, as of the end of last week, that information is now available on the ODFW website. If you do not already have it bookmarked, the stocking information can be reached by doing a internet search using “oregon fishing reports” and then going to the bottom left to click on “trout stocking”...
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Category: General
Date: 3/13/2013
Author: Pete Heley
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End of Winter Updates
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Anglers are still showing up at the lakes in the Quincy Wildlife Area in huge numbers. Knowing that they are still full of quality trout, they are eager to get their show of them. However, I am not ready to let go of the steelhead fishing still available to us on the main stem Columbia and the Methow River. I will be fishing on the main stem Columbia in the Bridgeport area and the Methow River the following day. I sure hope I get better conditions at Bridgeport than I had the first time...
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Category: General
Date: 3/11/2013
Author: Dave Graybill
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Oregon FIshing Report, March 7th 2013
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The February 23rd issue of Science News had a couple of very interesting articles that should be of interest to outdoor sportsmen. An article by Erin Wayman quotes an online article in Geophysical Research Letters that reported that evaporating water from irrigation canals and fields resulted in an increase in summer rains and an increase runoff to the Colorado River. The entire article makes interesting reading and the conclusion reached in the article was that evaporating irrigation water aff...
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Category: General
Date: 3/8/2013
Author: Pete Heley
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