Portland/Metro Fishing Report - With the Columbia River now closed for spring Chinook, focus for the region's most sought after species will turn to the Willamette, where a run of over 50,000 adults is expected back. The run is underway, well underway, with some guides commenting it's far better this year, than what they witnessed last year. The Multnomah Channel produced good catches on Sunday through Tuesday of this week. The middle and upper river at Oregon City also produced fair catches, but it was still only about 1 spring Chinook for every 10 rods fishing. We're entering the peak season for Portland Harbor spring Chinook fishing so it'll get better when the water conditions do.
It's still transition time on the Sandy and Clackamas systems. With the tail end of winter steelhead, and still weeks away from catchable numbers of summer steelhead or spring Chinook, metro anglers are all in for the Willamette River, if they have a boat. Bank angling opportunities this time of year aren't great, we're still weeks away from just mediocre bank fishing possibilities
Trout fishing remains a strong option as stocking programs continue with robust plants.
Check out the upcoming stocking schedule HERE.
Find the full report and forecast for Members on the Willamette, Sandy and the Clackamas from this page here.
North Coast Fishing Report - North Coast winter steelhead is over. It was far from a memorable season, but anglers will still become anxious for spring Chinook and to a lesser extent, summer steelhead available on the Wilson, Trask, Nestucca and Siletz River systems. We're in sit-and-wait mode for north coast opportunities, except for...Bottomfishing.
April offers up some excellent deep reef and nearshore bottomfishing opportunities with sea bass and lingcod headlining the show. Lings can be particularly vulnerable this time of year as they end the spawn and leave their traditional nesting sites.
Ocean crabbing has been good too, and Tillamook Bay is yielding fair to good catches of keeper Dungeness.
More than one sportangler has bragged about good catches of deep water Chinook. It appears that the ocean Chinook fishing is pretty good, mostly out of Newport, but catches out of Garibaldi are reported as well. These feeder Chinook are most likely California stocks of fish, and although success rates can be volatile, overall, it's pretty good fishing so far since the March 15th opener.
See the full report and forecast for Members right here.
Did you miss Josiah Darr's Tuesday webinar on Fishing the Lower Willamette: St. Johns to St. Helens, including the Multnomah Channel?
You can still purchase the recorded version and watch it at your convenience. Just click HERE!
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