A new era begins in the Pacific Northwest Washington and Oregon move to ban gill nets from mainstem of Columbia River In a tremendous victory for conservation, the Washington Fish & Wildlife Commission voted 9 to 0 in favor of passing a new policy that will eliminate the use of gill nets in the lower [...]
Oregon Fishing
50 Pounds of Steel: The Newest 30 / 10 Club Members!
Introducing the newest inductees into the 30 | 10 Member Club! While the previous group hailed from all over — Michigan, British Columbia, Oregon, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and New York — these four all come from the great state of Ohio. If you have caught and released a 30 | 10 steelhead (30 inches or more, [...]
Newest Members of the 30 / 10 Club
Ohio, New York, Michigan, Oregon, Pennsylvania, British Columbia, Indiana, Idaho… what do these places all have in common? BIG STEELHEAD! These places represent some of the most recent members of TheRockyRiver.com’s 30 | 10 MEMBER CLUB. Check out some pics below. If you have caught and released a 30 | 10 steelhead (30 inches or [...]
Record Pike Caught in Utah?
We’ve all been there. We hear a fish splash nearby and we hurl our lure right at it. Sometimes it works. Most of the time it doesn’t, but for Oregon-native Pat Bigelow, it could have gotten him in the Utah record books. Bigelow was fishing with his son-in-law on Yuba Reservoir when he hooked into a [...]
Orvis and Trout Unlimited to Open 1,000 Miles of New Trout Waters
Wild and native trout face a lot of obstacles, and Trout Unlimited and Orvis are trying to remove some of those barriers. Starting with Murphy Brook in Vermont and Tabor Brook in New Hampshire, both tributaries of the Connecticut River system, TU is overseeing the construction of reconnection projects on both streams thanks to funds raised and [...]
Oregon River Sees Spawning Sockeye for the First Time in a Half Century
The last time a sockeye salmon was sighted spawning in Oregon’s Metolius River, few if any people had ever heard of The Who, Lyndon Johnson was president, and Rolling Stone magazine was starting its first year. But this past week a spawning sockeye appeared in the river once again, for the first recorded time since that [...]
Idaho Study Shows Interbreeding with Hatchery Salmon Could be Good
Certainly there has been no shortage of concern that hatchery salmon, when they make it into the wild, can pose a significant threat to the genetic well-being of wild fish. A recent study, however, shows that might not be the case. A study published in the journal Molecular Ecology, based on research done on Idaho’s [...]
Former Miss Idaho Fractures Skull While Fishing
In 2009, Jamie Hilton won the Miss Idaho crown. Today, she’s lucky to have a place to put her tiara. She was fishing with her husband, Nick, in Hell’s Canyon, along the border of Idaho and Oregon, when she fell 12 feet down the canyon smashing her head on a boulder. “I wasn’t sure if I [...]
Extreme Mountain Biking Meets Steelhead Fly Fishing in Bend, Oregon
Here’s a video that combines fly reels and bike wheels. This guy doesn’t look like he sits still much, competing in mountain biking in the summers and guiding for steelhead in the winters. Superstitious is one thing, but this dude is something else. - Rick Bach Via: Midcurrent Do you like this story? Be sure [...]
Oregon Fishing Club Gets Kids with Special Needs Catching Trout
On the coast of Oregon, the Tillamook Anglers are responsible for stocking fish and promoting our sport in the area west of Portland. And 21 years ago, not knowing what to do with 1,200 fish that needed stocked before winter, member Jerry Dove had an idea. “I sat straight up in bed one night, my wife [...]
