Oregon Fishing
Oregon Fishing- A guide to news, reports and information for Salmon, steelhead and sturgeon fishing for Oregon rivers and ocean.
Tillamook fishing- All about the tides and water levels
A couple weeks of really good fishing caught up to us a little bit this week as small tides and less than ideal water levels finally slowed things down a little bit. The week fishing in Tillamook started strong on the heals of another system that made the rivers come up and the fish come […]
Tillamook County Rivers Bring Shiny Gifts
I love this time of year. Back to the roots, simplicity and basics that make drift boat fishing in Tillamook County so amazing. In it’s simplicity, the fishing is quite technical. The basics are only basics if you know them and I have so sympathy for those that don’t yet understand. I was taught by […]
Tillamook Fishing- Bays, Rivers and Weather
As a guide, this weather is giving me heart burn. I don’t remember ever seeing an October that was this wet, blustery and at times, flat out nasty. Up to the 24th of October, we have had 11.64 inches of rain in Tillamook. Compare that with 3.95 inches during the whole month of October in […]
Columbia River- So many fish, not enough time
It’s been a while since I’ve been able to post, it has been a busy charter/guide season on the Columbia River to say the least. Can you believe we catch all these fish within ear shot of our Portland location? It’s hard to believe sometimes, so I’ll consider myself grateful. When I left Astoria I was’t […]
5 Rules for Guiding- the 2016 Buoy 10 Salmon Season
By popular demand, I started my Astoria guided fishing charters the first week of August this year. Last year’s early season beat down had all of us pretty optimistic for the first week of August despite totally different conditions. I personally didn’t think we’d see anything like what we saw in 2015 and I don’t mean to […]
2016 Willamette River Spring Chinook Forecast
According to my sources, ODFW officials are expecting approximately 70,000 Spring Chinook to return to the Willamette River. This is a very decent projection and if conditions line up, anglers can look forward to some good Spring Chinook fishing in Portland starting in March. Granted the hard core folks will begin in January, but realistically […]
Warm water and fall fishing on the Columbia River
The good news is that none of these closures have anything to do with our Fall Salmon fishery that is just around the corner. The first I heard of emergency action in the region was a call from FM News 101.1, KXL looking for comment on the just imposed closures. I scrambled, heart racing, to read […]
Good year to be Charter fishing at Winchester Bay
I don’t know that I had ever experienced consistent, world-class, ocean King fishing until fishing the Ocean waters off the Umpqua River. I’ve had good chinook fishing in the ocean around Tillamook and even occasionally off the mouth of the Columbia River, but nothing like the charter fishing I get to experience at Winchester Bay. […]
Willamette River Fishing-Salmon Run Building Steam
The Willamette River is still a side note with most everyone in the region focusing on the Big C. All that will come to an end shortly, but for some, the confines of the Willamette are treating them just fine. While fishing the Big River yesterday a friend of mine and client sent me a […]
Columbia River Spring Chinook bite heating up
Good conditions continue in the Columbia River. The bite picked up quite a bit in the lower Columbia this last week, and anglers did much better at Tenasilahe and Puget Islands. While anglers caught fish trolling, the best bite came to those that fished on the hook, or on the anchor. Hatchery fish tend to show […]