Pain and discomfort and no fish for me…….Long lines to launch and retrieve boats on Friday and I heard unbelievable lines most the day on Saturday wrapped around back to the hotel.
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Pain and discomfort and no fish for me…….Long lines to launch and retrieve boats on Friday and I heard unbelievable lines most the day on Saturday wrapped around back to the hotel.
The planned ocean Chinook salmon (all-salmon-except coho) season will open as scheduled from Cape Falcon to Humbug Mt. from March 15 through April 30, 2018. The bag limit will be two salmon, except closed to retention of coho, with a minimum size of 24” for Chinook and a minimum size of 20” for steelhead. Within 15 fathoms of depth off Tillamook between Twin Rocks and Pyramid Rock all retained Chinook must have a healed fin clip.
The commercial troll salmon fishery scheduled to open on March 15 in the area from Cape Falcon to Humbug Mt. will remain closed to commercial troll salmon fishing for the period of March 15 through April 30.
Donaldson's Marina Dock is now carrying both the FishnSleep triangle and 360 flasher racks with box units. Donaldson is conveniently located just downriver from the Gleason Boat Ramp, on the Oregon side of the river.
There’s some reasonably optimistic fishing news from the Columbia River for a change — the spring chinook season on the big river should be a decent one.
By Wayne Kruse - For The Herald
By Terry Otto, Columbian staff writer
By Lynda V. Mapes Seattle Times environment reporter
Like its old-growth trees, the Northwest’s big, old chinook salmon are largely gone, a new study finds, with implications for Puget Sound’s critically endangered southern resident killer whales.
Go to Article on Seattle Times
By Terry Otto, Columbian staff writer
More fish!! Just in time to cast your poles during Free Fishing Weekend. On Tuesday they delivered 18,400 legals, 800 trophy, and 400 trophy+ size fish.
The Oregon Department of Agriculture and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announce the immediate closure of all recreational crabbing on the southern Oregon coast from Cape Blanco to the California border due to elevated levels of domoic acid. This includes Dungeness and red rock crab harvested in bays and estuaries, and on beaches, docks, piers, and jetties.