Willamette Valley/Metro- On the Columbia River, there are still plenty of steelhead being caught from the estuary up to Bonneville, with the best reports coming from just below the dam. The peak of the run has passed but there will be fish caught through the end of the month. Since the salmon opener on Aug 1, a small handful of chinook have been taken by anglers targeting steelhead but expect that number to increase as the week progresses.
Sturgeon fishing remains fair to slow in the gorge but like last week, effort is minimal.
On the Willamette, bass fishing remains the best option or try trolling worm harnesses upstream for walleye in the Multnomah Channel.
Snowmelt increased McKenzie flow this week but didn't effect mid-50-degree water temperatures. Fly fishing is fair to good.
Snowmelt increased McKenzie flow this week but didn't effect mid-50-degree water temperatures. Fly fishing is fair to good.
Spinners and bobber & jigs are taking summer steelhead on the Santiams with good numbers of fish in the system.
The Clackamas River may offer up a steelhead in the early morning. The best action is likely to happen from River Mill Dam downstream to Barton Park.
On the Sandy River, a few steelhead have been caught in the reach from the Salmon River down to Cedar Creek. The warm weather has rendered the river silty from the melting glacier.
Northwest – Saltwater anglers are focusing much of their effort on offshore albacore tuna. The targeted coho season is closed and concentrations of chinook are hard to find. There will be no halibut fishing this week along the mid-coast.
Buoy 10 anglers are few but numbers will increase dramatically in the coming week. The first big push of lower Columbia chinook will hit the river this week with catches likely to be very good just after the weekend. Anglers working the mouth of Young’s Bay are intercepting the Rogue River strain of Chinook, destined for the estuary’s terminal fishery. Jim Martin of Mulino hooked 6 salmon on the Monday evening tide, landing 2. He was only able to take one fish home however as the other was taken by a sea lion as it was tied off to the back of the boat bleeding out.
Crabbing is picking up in the lower Columbia, after a long bout of fresh water releases kept crab in the ocean.
Saltwater fishing for coho and chinook out of the mouth of the Columbia remains only fair. Plan on spending a longer day offshore if you want to bag a limit of hatchery coho.
The Nehalem estuary is putting out fair numbers of summer chinook. Spinners and herring are taking biters from the mouth to the North Fork Nehalem River. This fishery should peak in the coming 3 weeks.
Southwest- Halibut fishing was decent for the summer all-depth opener off the central coast although the ocean was rough. The next opportunity will be August 17th & 18th.
Tuna were more than 30 miles out of Newport over the past weekend with the bite good but not great. Ocean chinook fishing has been slow.
Bottom fishing has been good out of Depoe Bay and tuna charters are producing fine catches of albacore for their customers.
With warm water moving closer to the Oregon coast, exotic species are occasionally taken offshore. A large Opah, usually associated with waters off Hawaii, was landed by a tuna angler over the past week.
Tuna have been taken fewer than 15 miles out of Charleston although the bite has not been aggressive. Chinook fishing has been good offshore. Crabbing has been worthwhile in Coos Bay.
Despite good numbers of chinook in the Rogue estuary, the bite has been unreliable. When it turns on, the result is multiple hookups but it's been off again in an instant. Middle river fishing remains slow to fair but the upper Rogue is producing very good numbers of large, early summer steelhead as one of the best runs in years continues to improve.
While fishing has been good for ocean chinook out of Brookings Harbor, these fish are also entering the bay, resulting in several landings, a few on spoons cast from the local crabbing dock. When boats can get out, offshore chinook catches have been good with many limits taken.
Trout fishing is fair to good at Diamond Lake. Two tagged trout worth $100 each were landed last week. There are still a couple of $100 trout on which anglers may collect before October 31st.
Southwest- Halibut fishing was decent for the summer all-depth opener off the central coast although the ocean was rough. The next opportunity will be August 17th & 18th.
Tuna were more than 30 miles out of Newport over the past weekend with the bite good but not great. Ocean chinook fishing has been slow.
Bottom fishing has been good out of Depoe Bay and tuna charters are producing fine catches of albacore for their customers.
With warm water moving closer to the Oregon coast, exotic species are occasionally taken offshore. A large Opah, usually associated with waters off Hawaii, was landed by a tuna angler over the past week.
Tuna have been taken fewer than 15 miles out of Charleston although the bite has not been aggressive. Chinook fishing has been good offshore. Crabbing has been worthwhile in Coos Bay.
Despite good numbers of chinook in the Rogue estuary, the bite has been unreliable. When it turns on, the result is multiple hookups but it's been off again in an instant. Middle river fishing remains slow to fair but the upper Rogue is producing very good numbers of large, early summer steelhead as one of the best runs in years continues to improve.
While fishing has been good for ocean chinook out of Brookings Harbor, these fish are also entering the bay, resulting in several landings, a few on spoons cast from the local crabbing dock. When boats can get out, offshore chinook catches have been good with many limits taken.
Trout fishing is fair to good at Diamond Lake. Two tagged trout worth $100 each were landed last week. There are still a couple of $100 trout on which anglers may collect before October 31st.
Eastern – Summer steelhead numbers are building in the lower Deschutes, improving the number of hookups. Many of the fish landed have been wild. Redsides have been responding to caddis imitations with best results on days with little wind.
Paulina has been producing limits of kokanee and the bite has been on all day long.
Kokanee are being caught mornings in fair to good numbers on the troll at East Lake but the bite shuts down in the afternoon.
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