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Local River Reports

(Updated 9-3-10 @ 4:00 pm) 

Columbia River: Angler's have been catching a few salmon and steelhead off the mouth of the Deschutes trolling wiggle warts and spinners. Catch n release sturgeon has been good. Walleye fishing has been ok.

COLUMBIA RIVER MAINSTEM, Bonneville Dam upstream to Oregon/Washington border

• Open for chinook (adults and jacks), coho, and adipose fin-clipped steelhead Aug. 1 – Dec. 31, 2010, or until harvest guideline is achieved.
• Coho must be adipose fin-clipped if kept downstream of the Hood River bridge.
• Daily bag limit is 2 adult salmon/steelhead in combination, and 5 jacks.

Snake River: Bass fishing and catch and release sturgeon has been good. Anglers have been catching a few steelhead on jigs n shrimp and trolling plugs.

Fall chinook fishing on Snake River begins Sept. 1

ENTERPRISE, Ore. – For the first time in recent history, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will open the upper Snake River for fall chinook harvest on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010.

The chinook fishery will open to sport fishing seven days a week concurrent with the annual Hell’s Canyon steelhead fishery. The river will be open from the Oregon / Washington border to the deadline below Hells Canyon Dam and will remain open until Oct. 31, or until a closure is announced.

The daily bag limit is two adipose fin-clipped fall chinook salmon per day, only one of which can be an adult salmon longer than 24 inches. Only barbless hooks may be used. Anglers are reminded to consult the 2010 Oregon Sport Fishing Regulations for other applicable regulations.

Fishery managers predict over 60,000 fall chinook salmon will pass Lower Granite Dam this year. This is more fish than needed for hatchery production needs and thus will be available for sport harvest.

Hells Canyon Dam is the farthest Snake River fall chinook will travel in Oregon, having migrated over 800 miles and passing 8 mainstem dams.

ClearWater River: Should be some steelhead nosing their way upriver into the cooler water now.

Deschutes River: Angler have been having better success catching a steelhead. Anglers have been catching fish from Shears Falls downstream to the mouth. But the best success has been in the lower 10 miles of the river. Flies, spinners, and plugs are the lures most widely used. Spinners and plugs have been working the best with the warmer warter temperature. Fly anglers are having better success early morning or late evenings when the water temps are cooler.

Grande Ronde River: Open to trout and bass fishing. There will be a few steelhead start to sneak their way up the river anyday. Warm water temps will make them finicky biters, but they will be in the river.

Imnaha River: Catch n release Bull trout is open.

John Day River: Open for Trout and bass fishing.

Umatilla River: Open for trout fishing. Steelhead season opens September 1st. There should be a few steelhead in the river now.

Wallowa River:  Trout fishing has been picking up with the lower river flows. Nymphing will produce the bigger fish, but you can still have a lot of fun with a variety of dry flies. Hopper patterns have been working well too. Add a small bead head dropper if the dry fly action slows.

Walla Walla River: South Fork is fishing good for trout. Standard dry fly patterns and nymphs work well on this river for the rainbows.

Weneha River: Trout season is open. Catch n release Bull trout is open.

McKay Reservoir: Anglers have been catching trout, perch, and crappie, and a few catfish.

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