The Willamette above Oregon City Falls as well as most tributaries will close to chinook angling on Sunday night. Above Willamette Falls only the Molalla will remain open, below the Falls the Sandy and Clackamas will also remain available for Chinook angling.
The closure is necessary to allow hatchery managers to harvest 20,000 fish to strip [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Breaking News: Willamette and Willamette Tributary Chinook Closure
Posted in Conservation, Fishing, Outdoors, Salmon and Steelhead on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Siletz summer steelhead, Mckenzie trout celebrate freedom
Posted in Fishing, Fly Fishing, Salmon and Steelhead, Steelhead, Steelheading, Trout on May 28, 2008 | 11 Comments »
On Sunday Matt and I broke free of the high water levels in the Cascade rivers and fished the Siletz River in the Oregon Coast Range. I can’t describe how nice it was to put down an anchor and have it hold after coping with massive flows in our local rivers.
The Siletz has the distinction [...]
Oregon Coast Range Trout Fishing
Posted in Fishing, Fly Fishing, Outdoors, Trout on May 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Our Cascade Range rivers have risen to ungodly levels fit for the godless masses of the Willamette Valley. The full reservoirs, record snowpack and horrific heat wave conspired to send the already high rivers to ridiculous, unsafe and unfishable levels leaving Matt, Todd and I to scramble for a place to wet our lines.
Some [...]
Willamette Restoration a Success
Posted in Conservation, Outdoors on May 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On Saturday we kicked of our annual riparian enhancement efforts on the Willamette River in Eugene with a work party and a BBQ. In attendance were Trout Unlimited 678 volunteers as well as my family. Shelly and I put the kids to work hoping these types of events will instill a [...]
Lame
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Tough week at One Mule Team HQ. Went outside to go to work and found the truck looking like this:
Thing is, I always bring my valuables inside . . . one night I was tired and lazy and left my laptop in the truck . . . . Oh well. Strange thing is I [...]
Willamette Falls Spring Chinook Count Sickening
Posted in Conservation, Fishing, Outdoors, Salmon and Steelhead on May 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Basically, there are no spring chinook headed our way this season and I’ll admit it–I’m a little peeved. I’m not a “hatchery head” but do enjoy harvesting the occasional fin-clipped spring chinook from the Mckenzie or Middle Fork Willamette.
A meager run is forecast this year. Only 34,000 chinook were expected to cross Willamette Falls this season. Willamette [...]
Calapooia Riparian Restoration takes place of fishing
Posted in Conservation, Salmon and Steelhead, Steelhead on May 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I didn’t go fishing this weekend. Everything has been pretty high and though the fish are acclimated the rivers are pushy. Instead I headed up to Brownsville with buddies from the Mckenzie-Upper Willamette chapter of Trout Unlimited to assist the Calapooia Watershed Council’s restoration efforts. We removed blackberries and english ivy hoping to give native [...]
Gear Review: Owner Stinger Treble size 4
Posted in Outdoors, Salmon and Steelhead, Steelhead on May 8, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I did it so you won’t have to . . . that’s how dedicated I am. Tonight I field tested Owners Stinger Treble Super Needle Point series by accidentally burying one to its bend in my thumb.
I was surprised by how easily the Owners chemically sharpened high carbon japanese steel penetrated deeply into my digit and was [...]
Spring Fly Fishing on the Mckenzie River
Posted in Fishing, Fly Fishing, Trout on May 6, 2008 | 8 Comments »
If I had to write up this trip in four words it would be easy: too much damned water.
We floated the stretch from Deerhorn Bridge to Hendricks Bridge on Sunday. Matt and I were in my drift boat and The Bod was on his catraft. We had planned on a short drift down to the Mudhole [...]
Breaking News: Bull trout still threatened
Posted in Conservation, Trout on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This week the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced that Bull trout will remain a listed species in the contiguous United States. The decision was part of a five year status review requested by then Idaho governor Dirk Kempthorne (now US Secretary of the Interior). Mr. Kempthorne requested the review because he contended that Bull [...]
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