Author: Bill Monroe

Bill Monroe has served Oregon anglers, hunters and wildlife lovers for several decades as an outdoor writer for The Oregonian and The Oregonian/OregonLive. Before coming to Portland and after service in the Navy during Vietnam, he earned journalism and fish and wildlife (minor) degrees from Oregon State University, then worked in the trenches as a beat reporter for the Corvallis Gazette Times. Bill is a past president of both the Outdoor Writers Association of America and the Northwest Outdoor Writers Association and has won numerous awards for his outdoor work. He's active on both The Guides Forecast and Facebook and is a twice-past chair of the Clackamas River Basin Council, which he continues to serve on behalf of fish and their habitat.
Extremely excited fisherman

The Chinook are on the way!

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By Bill Monroe WESTPORT, Ore – Former congressman David Wu needed to seal the deal. The Oregon Democrat may no longer be involved in politics, but he remains a lifelong (in Oregon anyway) angler and…

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Fishing

Guides are not fair game; they keep happy anglers IN the game

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By Bill Monroe Enough already! Badly mis-directed cyber-chatter about opposition to fishing guides is wearing on this withered brain.. OK…full-disclosure for those who don’t know: My son is a full-time fishing guide (and a better…

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Bob Toman

Just one more pass!

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By Bill Monroe I don’t have to be a Marine to need a few good men and women. A briefing is in order: There’s a move afoot to memorialize the late Bob Toman at Carver…

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camp and fire on river drawing

Upriver spring Chinook lovers deserve MUCH more attention!

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By Bill Monroe Call it the “Trail of Tears,” circa 2023… The original, of course, was a tragic and selfish disruption by white Americans of several well-organized Native American tribes in the southeast. Thousands died while…

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From Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife nets

Sine die is off to a sine start in Oregon

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By Bill Monroe The Oregon Legislature is underway, with elected representatives tackling a plethora, preponderance, parade, panoply, pageant, panorama, profusion – of proposals. This early in the session, it’s more of a Pandora’s box –…

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A question answered every day of the year in Oregon

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By Bill Monroe I’m often asked “What’s your favorite kind of fishing?”Hell, I don’t know. What day is it? Oregon is unique; even more so than Washington or California (tied for a close second, however)….

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Sea Lion Spectacle Moves North

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by Bill Monroe Photo above from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Shades of Yogi Berra! Yes Berra, not Bear. Remember his timeless quote? “It’s like deja vu all over again.” Except for Washington…

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Wrapping up the year (and teasing in the new)

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                             Posted on Dec. 30, 2022 by Bill Monroe By Bill Monroe Can’t end the year without wrapping up some spilled notes you may or may not have noticed. We’ll mop all that up in…

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Happy Child at Window watching fish pass by

THE HAP-HAPPIEST SEASON OF ALL!

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By Bill Monroe Jingle Bells isn’t the best earworm a salmon angler may hear every second week of December. Try this classic, originally sung by Andy Williams: It’s the most wonderful time of the yearWith…

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Fish On! And on and on and on

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                             Posted on December 1, 2022 by Bill Monroe By Bill Monroe John Stonick of Cedar Mill had plenty to be thankful for on Thanksgiving beyond the usual loving family, roof over his head and…

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Fish and Wildlife Troopers Hover over Fish and Wildlife

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by Bill Monroe Hear about the guy in LaPine who ran a stop sign, drove on the wrong side of the road and nearly hit an Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Division trooper before…

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Spearfish caught off the Washington coast

Spearfish Doesn’t Stick in Washington Record Book

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By Bill Monroe A funny thing happened to a shortbill spearfish on its way into the official Washington state record book of sport-caught fish. It got away. The record book, that is, not the fish….

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