ODFW Willamette Zone Reg Updates


by OR Department of Fish & Wildlife Staff
10-2-2014
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CLACKAMAS RIVER: coho salmon

  - Beginning Friday, Sept. 26 through Dec. 31 the daily limit is three adult salmon
or steelhead in combination but at least one of those must be an adipose
fin-clipped coho. For example, an angler may keep two chinook and one coho;
two steelhead and one coho; one chinook, one steelhead and one coho; or three
coho. All fish must be adipose fin-clipped.

  - Consult the 2014 Oregon Sport Fishing Regulations for more
information on
regulations, seasons and bag limits for steelhead and other salmon species.


Barbless hooks required from the mouth to the 99E Bridge when fishing for salmon,
steelhead and trout.

EAGLE CREEK: coho salmon

  - Beginning Friday, Sept. 26 through Dec. 31 the daily limit is three adult salmon
or steelhead in combination but at least one of those mustbe an adipose
fin-clipped coho. For example, an angler may keep two chinook and one coho;
two steelhead and one coho; one chinook, one steelhead and one coho; or
three coho. All fish must be adipose fin-clipped.

  - Consult the 2014 Oregon Sport Fishing Regulations for more information on
regulations, seasons and bag limits for steelhead and other salmon species.


SANDY RIVER: coho salmon, sturgeon

  - Beginning Friday, Sept. 26 through Dec. 31 the daily limit is three adult salmon
or steelhead in combination but at least one of those must be an adipose
fin-clipped coho. For example, an angler may keep two chinook and one coho; two
steelhead and one coho; one chinook, one steelhead and one
coho; or three coho.
All fish must be adipose fin-clipped.

  - Consult the 2014 Oregon Sport Fishing Regulations for more information on
regulations, seasons and bag limits for steelhead and other salmon species

  - Retention of white sturgeon is prohibited in 2014.

  - Fishing for sturgeon, including catch-and-release, is prohibited in the Sandy River
during Jan. 1 - April 30, 2014 and Dec.r 1-31, 2014.


WILLAMETTE RIVER, Mouth to Willamette Falls, including Multnomah Channel

Salmon and Steelhead

  - Barbless hooks required from the mouth to Willamette Falls, including the
Multnomah Channel and Gilbert River, when fishing for salmon, steelhead and trout.

  - Beginning Friday, Sept. 26 through Dec. 31 the daily limit is three adult
salmon or steelhead in combination but at least one of those must be an adipose
fin-clipped coho. For example, an angler may keep two chinook and one coho; two
steelhead and one coho; one chinook, one steelhead and one coho; or three coho. All
fish must be adipose fin-clipped. Does not apply to areas above Willamette Falls
where the coho bag limit remains two adipose or non-adipose fin clipped coho.

  - This area is open to retention of adipose fin-clipped steelhead and adipose
fin-clipped Chinook salmon the entire year under permanent rules.

  - Consult the 2014 Oregon Sport Fishing Regulations for more information on
regulations, seasons and bag limits for steelhead and salmon.

  - Bank angling is prohibited from the east shore of the Willamette River the entire
year at the "Oregon City Wall" defined as the area beginning west of Highway
99E, at the northern-most extent of the parking area near the intersection of
8th Street and Highway 99E in Oregon City, approximately 290 feet downstream of the
Oregon City/West Linn bridge (Hwy 43) and extending upstream approximately 1715
feet to the retaining wall extending into the Willamette River at the NW corner of the Blue Heron Paper Mill.





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