If flowing water gets your heart pumping, Oregon is the place for you! In addition to year-round fishing for trophy trout and steelhead, this area, with its nationally renowned rivers, streams, and lakes, provides anglers with a variety of world-class fishing opportunities. Few places in the world have Oregon’s diversity and quality of angling. Salmon and halibut dominate the 363 miles of Pacific coastline, and salmon and steelhead run in major rivers in the central and eastern regions of the state. The countless smaller streams and reservoirs are teeming with trout and panfish. Action can continue throughout the year, but is usually best early and late in the season when water temperatures are in the comfort zone.
Chum salmon has a lower oil content than the other wild salmon, which gives it a relatively mild flavor. However, it’s the meatiest and firmest in tex...
Often located inshore in bays and estuaries, commonly over hard, sandy bottoms; males found primarily offshore
This is an extremely valuable species in any and all of its forms. It is the fly fisherman's delight as it takes a fly readily, leaps often, and fight...
Smallmouth Bass prefer deeper water than the largemouth and areas of clear, fast flowing streams and pools with gravel/rubble bottom.
The Steelhead is a rainbow trout (a type of salmon) that has gone to live in the ocean. They are from the same Genus as the salmon from the Pacific si...
Chum salmon has a lower oil content than the other wild salmon, which gives it a relatively mild flavor. However, it’s the meatiest and firmest in tex...
Often located inshore in bays and estuaries, commonly over hard, sandy bottoms; males found primarily offshore
This is an extremely valuable species in any and all of its forms. It is the fly fisherman's delight as it takes a fly readily, leaps often, and fight...
Smallmouth Bass prefer deeper water than the largemouth and areas of clear, fast flowing streams and pools with gravel/rubble bottom.
The Steelhead is a rainbow trout (a type of salmon) that has gone to live in the ocean. They are from the same Genus as the salmon from the Pacific si...