Fish Report for 6-16-2022

ODFW Recreation Report

6-16-2022
OR Department of Fish & Wildlife Staff

Good luck big game hunters!

The controlled hunt draw results will be posted by June 20, and here’s a reminder about how to check your results online. We’ll be keeping our fingers crossed for you – except when we type.

Register for a hunting, shooting workshop

Our workshops and events calendar is filling up with:

  • Introduction to hunting seminars,
  • shotgun skills classes,
  • 3D archery events, and
  • upcoming pheasant hunting workshops.

Find more details, including how to register.

Share your wildlife sightings

Spring is the perfect time for wildlife watching. Some animals are still migrating and there are plenty of babies about. While you’re watching, use the iNaturalist app to identify and record the animals you see. Your information contributes valuable data to help improve wildlife conservation. Learn more about how to participate in the iNaturalist project

Leave wildlife in the wild

Speaking of young wildlife, you might come across a fledging bird on the ground, or a deer or elk calf hidden in the grass and be tempted to “help.” But don’t! It’s likely these animals haven’t been abandoned or orphaned; mom is probably nearby waiting for you to leave so she can return to her young. Learn more about why to leave these young animals alone

Spring fishing: anglers spoiled with choices

Last week we listed just a few of the options. We’ll repeat that list this week just in case you ran out of time to do them all:

  • We’ve stocked dozens of lakes, ponds and streams with thousands of trout this spring in all areas of the state.
  • There are native redband trout in major rivers like the Klamath and Deschutes, and native cutthroat in most coastal rivers and streams.
  • Spring Chinook fishing continues in the Willamette Valley and along the coast.
  • Summer steelhead have arrived in the lower Rogue, and rivers along the coast, in the Willamette Valley.
  • With warmer weather finally here, bass, bluegill, crappie and other warmwater fish are active and ready to bite.
  • Shad are running in the Columbia, Willamette and Umpqua rivers.
  • This is the season for kokanee fishing in places like Paulina Lake, and Green Peter, Detroit and Wickiup reservoirs.
  • Anglers can find good catfish fishing in the reservoirs on the Snake River.

Once you’ve decided what to do, check the zone reports to figure out where to do it.

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More Reports

OR Department of Fish & Wildlife Reports
for Wednesday, June 15th, 2022
Imnaha River: Imnaha opens for spring Chinook June 25; first season since 2016
Wallowa River: Wallowa River open for spring Chinook June 25; first season since 2016
Imnaha River: Recent rains and melting snow, flows currently are fairly high
Lookingglass Creek: Opened to angling for hatchery spring Chinook salmon
Wallowa River: Wallowa River will open for hatchery spring Chinook fishing on June 25
Hood River: The Hood River has been high and muddy this week
Blue River: Will be stocked early this week
Blue River Reservoir: Was last stocked the week of May 31
Clackamas River: Lower Clackamas River Fishery Summaries
Coast Fork Willamette River: Will be stocked this week
Leaburg Lake: Will be stocked this week
McKenzie River: Increase in flow and drop in temperature the fish have not been moving as much
Middle Fork of the Williamette: Reports of a few fish being caught below Dexter Dam
Santiam River ( North Fork) : River is currently running unseasonably high for this time of year
Santiam River ( North Fork) Above Detroit Lake: The river is very high at the moment
Santiam River (South Fork): Currently flows are around 10,000 cfs
Siletz River: Summer steelhead fishing should continue to improve through June
Tillamook Bay: There are still fish available in both the upper and lower bay
Trask River: Flows are up again and the river is floatable
Wilson River: Summer steelhead should be throughout the fishery
Coos River: Anglers are still catching decent numbers of rockfish around the jetties
Emigrant Reservoir: Emigrant is getting a bonus 500 pounder trout this week
Lemolo Lake: The KOA resort is open
Bottom fishing is now open to all depths through June 30
North Umpqua River: Anglers are doing well on spring Chinook
Wood River: Hatches are starting with salmonflies and large mayfly specie
Williamson River: Williamson River Fishing Report
Sycan River: Flows are high near the mouth
North Fork Sprague River: Flows are dropping to 54.1 cfs
Sprague River: Fishing is fair throughout the river


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