Best bets SPRING BREAK fishing

If your plans for spring break don’t include fishing, you need to change your plans. Consider adding trout and steelhead fishing, and/or bay clamming to your agenda.

• Several ponds, lakes and reservoirs in the NW, SW, Central and NE zones have been stocked with trout just in time for spring break.
• In addition, trout fishing in several rivers with year-round fisheries – think Deschutes, Fall Metolius, Crooked, Blitzen and Wallowa – will be picking up thanks to recent warmer weather.
• Winter steelhead fishing is winding down, but anglers are still catching bright steelhead in places like the north and mid-coast, Willamette Valley and northeast Oregon.
• Low tides next week will have shifted to mid-afternoons. A much more convenient time for some bay clamming. Here’s how to dig for bay clams.

Need more details? Check out the zone reports.

Spring kokanee fishing

Kokanee fishing starts to heat up in April, and we’re already getting reports of good kokanee fishing. And here are 9 kokanee fishing tips to help you land your limit.

Introduction to hunting in Oregon 

New to hunting? Or just new to hunting in Oregon? Learn all about what you can hunt for, when you can hunt and what licenses/tags you’ll need to hunt in this two-hour seminar. There are several seminars scheduled for multiple locations. Learn more and register.