Fishing Reports and Articles

Portland/Metro Fishing Report With mainstem Chinook on the wane, and Willamette River coho starting to slow above the falls, metro anglers will struggle to find waterborne recreational opportunities in the coming weeks. Tributary coho will remain a fair option for the next few weeks, but anglers will remain focused on coastal opportunities until winter steelhead…

A Whopper Of A Coho Return On The Willamette; Fishing To Taper However Willamette River Fishing Report – Willamette Falls coho counts are starting to taper to just a few hundred or less adults per day. It’s been a GREAT return here, with some sport anglers able to take advantage of some decent days for…

Fall Chinook Remain Challenging, River Rise Is Coming! North Coast Fishing Report – Fall Chinook fisherman on the North Coast continue to report poor returns on their investment of time. Tillamook Bay anglers remain a bit perplexed at the lack of Chinook and the abundance of wild coho and seaweed. Effort remains fairly robust however,…

Last Full Week Coming Up For Crane Prairie; Metolius, Fall River, Crooked, Lower Deschutes Trout Weather Outlook Across Central and Eastern Oregon:  Weather is turning cool and rainy for the end of October.  Daytime highs will be in the 50s throughout much of the High Desert, and high country including the Cascade Lakes Highway area…

Grande Ronde Steelhead! Weather Outlook Across Central and Eastern Oregon:  Northeast Oregon will be in the 50s through the weekend, and highs in the 40s much of next week.  There will be showers through the weekend.  EASTERN/SOUTHEASTERN OREGON WATERS Ana Reservoir:   There are reports of good fishing on Ana Reservoir for legal and trophy size…

Lower Columbia Coho Show To Fade, Chinook Season Wrapping Up Columbia River Fishing Report – Fishing is winding down rapidly on the mainstem Columbia River. Estuary coho are starting to fade and upriver Chinook, at least bright ones, are becoming scarce. The late season Buoy 10 coho program wasn’t what most of us had anticipated…

Well, the Chetco Estuary which has been the place to go for Chinook salmon fishermen has still been producing some nice fish along with some “nice” (combat fishing) numbers of boats working the area. The storm that everybody has been waiting for is here and is expecting high wind and lots of rain at the…

Clackamas River Fishing Report – Clackamas anglers are remarking that they’d likely invest more effort in the Sandy over the Clackamas this time of year. Although both systems have seen good returns of coho, Clackamas, or er, Eagle Creek coho tend to make a speedy return to their favorite tributary. I’m trying to get an…

Vancouver Metro Area Chinook angling slowing down, but tributary late coho are kicking in. Heavy rains will finally lift the rivers, bringing the prospect of better bites. Chinook angling is slowing down in the mainstem Columbia and the tributaries, with most of the fish left out there turning dark. In the tributaries the first of…

By Bill Monroe I got lucky on my birthday earlier this month. No, not like that. At my age, “getting lucky” has long since regressed from positive experiences with the other sex to positive experiences with other furred, feathered, and finned species (excluding mermaids). In this case, I killed a wild coho. It was a…

Willamette Falls coho, Tillamook Bay Crabbing, trout stocking, all high points in this week’s Oregon fishing report. Portland/Metro Fishing Report – With mainstem Columbia Chinook fading into the season, anglers will be looking toward other opportunities in the Portland area. Coho certainly remains one of those options, but don’t overlook fall trout as well.The Bonneville reach…

Wild Coho Robust On The North Coast, Season Ended Wednesday; Chinook Sparse North Coast Fishing Report – Most everywhere you go on the north coast, the talk of the town is the numbers of wild coho we’re seeing on the north coast. It’s for real, there’s a BUNCH and anglers that have had the chance…