Santiam River ( North Fork) Fish Report for 4-24-2024
Spring chinook of the season the fishing is beginning to heat up
Santiam River ( North Fork) - Stayton, OR
by OR Department of Fish & Wildlife Staff
4-24-2024
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River levels best for fishing are at or below 3,000 cfs, and the river is currently running at around 2,100 cfs at the gauge in Mehama.
With the arrival of the first summer steelhead and Spring chinook of the season the fishing is beginning to heat up. Summer steelhead have started to enter the river and about 100 have already made it passed the Stayton area. So far, they have counted 1,751 adults passing above Willamette Falls as of April 20.
Spring chinook numbers will begin to increase dramatically in the next couple of weeks but their arrival in the basin still a few weeks away Now that we are passed April 22 the bait restrictions on the river have been lifted and bait is again allowed. For the next week or two the lower river will have more fish until the bulk of the run arrives and pushes more fish into the upper sections.
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