From avid angler Tim Moran The McKenzie – Fishing on the fly with Dry/Dropper, match the hatch dries (PMD, Caddis, Stones, Terrestrials), Nymphs and Euro Nymphing techniques. Guide Martin Thurber has been taking his clients out and limiting on planted rainbows in 1/2 day trips. He’s fishing with small egg clusters and worms behind a…
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Southwest Oregon Fishing Reports for November 15th, 2019
Southwest Oregon Fishing Reports From ODF&W Bottomfishing is now open to fish at all depths. Fishing for lingcod and rockfish was very good this past weekend. Many anglers caught big lingcod while fishing out past 40 fathoms. The daily bag limit for marine fish is 5 plus 2 lingcod. The harvest of cabezon along with…
Southwest Oregon Fishing Reports for September 6th, 2019
Southwest Oregon Fishing Reports There is an impact neutral rollover of coho remaining from the mark selective summer season to the non mark selective September season from Cape Falcon to Humbug Mt. This results in a net increase of 6,640 coho in the non selective coho season and a revised quota of 15,640 coho. The…
Southwest Oregon Fishing Reports for Aug 9th, 2019
Southwest Oregon Fishing Reports Data regarding the current ocean selective (finclipped) coho season has been updated through July 28th and 35.3 percent of the quota has been caught and kept with fishing success running at .83 retained salmon per angler/trip. The most successful port so far continues to be Depoe Bay with 1.10 kept salmon…
Southwest Oregon Fishing Reports for July 12th, 2019
Southwest Oregon Fishing Reports Some striper anglers fishing shallow-running swimbaits averaged at least 15 stripers per night last week. It seems that most of the larger stripers landed recently have been caught on live bait with live sardines from Umpqua Bait, “pogies and pike minnows all working. It’s kind of ironic that the most successful…
Southwest Oregon Fishing Reports for July 5th, 2019
Southwest Oregon Fishing Reports ODFW trout plants have shifted to central Oregon and some of the area’s most popular trout fisheries were stocked last week. Crane Prairie Reservoir received 6,600 legal rainbows, Miller Lake was stocked with 6,000 legal rainbows, East and Paulina Lake each received 2,500 legal rainbows. Miller Lake is slated to receive…
Southwest Oregon Fishing Reports for June 21st, 2019
Southwest Oregon Fishing Reports No new updates from Pete this week. From ODF&W Ocean salmon fishing for Chinook salmon from Cape Falcon to Humbug Mt is open. Chinook must be a minimum of 24-inches long. The ocean opens to fin-clipped coho salmon on June 22. Bottomfishing has been good when the ocean lays down and…
SW Oregon Fishing Report for May 10th, 2019
Conditions for crabbing and rockfish and lingcod angling in Coos Bay should be improving as the mud and heavy freshwater runoff subsides from recent storms. Using a jig with a twister tail has been a great bait for catching rockfish. Anglers have been catching lingcod with a herring floated under a bobber. Trout fishing in…
SW Oregon Fishing Report January 18th, 2019
From Pete Heley at www.PeteHeley.com The main outdoor-related topic of conversation continues to be the new licensing system the ODFW started this year. While the new system seems to be a major step backward from the previous system which was in effect through mid-December of 2018, the ODFW does seem to be doing a pretty…
SW Oregon Fishing Report for October 5th, 2018
From ODF&W Diamond and Willow lakes are good bets for some fall trout fishing. The boat ramp is Willow Lake has closed, but a temporary ramp has been set up along the shore in the campground. Fishing for bass and other warmwater species should be good. Fishing continues to be good at Diamond Lake. Most…
SW Oregon Fishing Report for September 28th, 2018
From ODF&W The two-rod validation for fishing for salmon in Coos Bay ends on Sept. 30. Salmon fishing continues to be slow but anglers have caught some Chinook salmon from the BLM boat ramp up to the head of tide. The majority of the salmon caught this week were jacks with a few adults mixed…
SW Oregon Fishing Report for September 21st, 2018
From ODF&W From Humbug Mountain to the OR/CA border, salmon fishing closed on Aug. 26. The Chetco River Fall Chinook State Waters Terminal Fishery will open on Oct. 6-7 and Oct. 13-14 with a daily bag limit of 1 Chinook per angler. The Nearshore halibut season is open seven days a week and as of…
SW Oregon Fishing Report for September 7th, 2018
From ODF&W Chinook are being caught in a number of SW Zone location including the Rogue Bay at Gold Beach, and in bays and lower sections of rivers like the Coos, Coquille and Umpqua. Smallmouth bass fishing continues to be a fishing bright spot in the south and mainstem Umpqua. On the Umpqua, please be…
SW Oregon Fishing Report for August 31st, 2018
From ODF&W This weekend (Sept. 1-2) is a Free Fishing Weekend in Oregon when no license, tag or endorsement is needed to fish, crab and clam anywhere in Oregon that’s open to fishing. As an angler, you know how much fun fishing is. This is a great weekend to share that fun with others. Several…
SW Oregon Fishing Report for August 17th, 2018
From ODF&W Reports are that rockfish fishing is still scratchy, anglers are having to work for them. Lingcod has slowed down some as well; however there are still some good-size lingcod being landed, it just may take some more time and effort than it did a few weeks ago. Reminder that as of April 1,…