Recent content by Irishrover

Time to get a new license. Winter steelhead on the Sandy!

Merry Christmas to all! I'm waiting for one of my grandsons to open his present. He asked for a two-piece fishing rod because he wanted to be able to take it apart so he could carry it on his bike. He likes to hop on his bike and head down to a creek near his house and fish. Sure, beats...

Plenty of small trout streams to fish out here in Oregon. The Owyhee River is an option for browns (an introduced species to Oregon aka German Brown) https://www.tu.org/magazine/fishing/desert-brown-town/ In Central Oregon, come out in May for the great salmon fly hatch on the Deschutes...

"Curtis Creek Manifesto" by Sheridan Andrson best book ever written to get one who has never fly fished turned into a capable flyfisher! https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/curtis-creek-manifesto_sheridan-anderson/462577/item/#edition=3827197&idiq=6265786 $9.95 at Amazon.

LBC used to have a 25-kokanee limit. It went down to a 5 fish combined limit a few years back. Perhaps that had some effect on the population growth. We used to fish the Metolius arm and camp at Perry South. The kokanee were not infested with Copepods like they appear to be now. Now we...

I lived in Newberg a while back and found it lacking in the fishing department. It been about 50 years ago that I lived there. The best fishing I found then was on The Nestucca River. It was a good steelhead river and there as plenty of access. The lower river and bay provided a good spot...

Crooked River. Nice wadable river, great scenery and plenty of fish. The John Day near Cottonwood Canyon and the Doner and Blitzen.

Stumbled across this information while planning this summers adventures. Thought it might be useful to other here. I have fished a lot of the places listed in the article but it always nice to see a different perspective. The article is titled Best Fly-Fishing Rivers in Oregon...

If by chance you have no other options and are stuck coming to Oregon you might want to check out the Woods River. It's in Klamath County the area you mentioned you might like to settle in. https://www.bestfishinginamerica.com/or-wood-river-fishing-oregon.html Also the Chewaucan is close to...

Scycan, Donner and Blitzen, Grand Ronde, Sprague, and the Chewaucan, to add to the list. Lots of wadable water also there are a lot of float tube lakes for a change of pace.

critterbob, Kokanee yes a great fish! The fin clip comment was for any salmon fishers that might by chance read this thread. Tight Lines.

Good to hear you are back at it and hope your health continues to get better!

The quote is from page 17 of the ODF&W regulations. If one follows the language of the regulation there should be no problem. We were quite pleased when the rule was changed. It allowed us to bleed and gut our salmon out on the ocean and fill the cavity with ice. Sometimes it could be a...

Was just about to print that for you. A few years back it was illegal, then ODF&W figured out it was a good thing.

https://www.gameandfishmag.com/editorial/fishing_walleyes-fishing_wo_0605_02/193895#replay Good article I've been saving.