Willamette Valley/Metro - The Bonneville chinook bite was excellent last week but short lived. Dam passage has dropped and the gillnets will fish Thursday, Sunday and Tuesday nights in all 5 zones below Bonneville Dam.

Sturgeon fishing in the gorge remains consistently good and should stay that way with a 7-day per week season.

Daily coho counts have remained in the double digits at Willamette Falls with the YTD total about 900. Sturgeon fishing in the lower river is fair and improving.

The Sandy River has continued to produce coho but rain this week will likely roil the water here. Bobber and eggs have been effective but there have been no reports of three-fish limits over the past week.

Few anglers have been able to take advantage of the three coho per day bag limit on the Clackamas and Eagle Creek where fishing has been slow to fair.

The water is up, as is the temperature of the North Santiam. It is improving the bite in challenging conditions. Summer steelheading is about wrapped up on the South Santiam.

Fly anglers are finding fair to good trout fishing on the upper McKenzie. A few steelhead are being taken below Leaburg Dam.

Mt Hood Pond is scheduled to be planted with trout.

Northwest ??? The west channel of Tillamook Bay was laden with chinook last week but has since dried up. Some quality fish are still being taken at first light but action should again switch to the east side of the bay when the later arriving Kilchis and Wilson chinook begin to show in coming weeks. Numerous chinook in the high 30-pound class hit the decks and 5-year fish continue to make a strong showing this year.

The ocean will not be an option this weekend even though a soft tide series would make for ideal bar crossings. The lower bay will likely produce the best catches and seaweed is likely to be less of a problem in the smaller exchanges. Crabbing on Tillamook remains fair at best.

Another rise in river levels may put small numbers of chinook into the river systems with the Trask having the highest potential. The Nestucca may also fish good but tidewater may prove to be the overall best option.

Crabbing continues to pick up in the lower Columbia and this weekends small tides will give crabbers a strong advantage. Razor clamming closed on October 12th from the mouth of Siletz Bay to the mouth of the Columbia due to elevated levels of PSP toxins.

Nehalem Bay showed brief signs of recovery mid-week where a few trollers working Wheeler scored some quality chinook. Effort remains too light for consistent reports.

The Siletz remains slow but fair numbers of fish are beginning to show for Alsea bobber casters. Egg and shrimp combinations will take the lion's share of the biters.

Siuslaw chinook fishers have had some slow days this week but the few fish taken have been large, running to 30 pounds.

Coho have started striking spinners at Siltcoos Lake where rain is helping to alleviate the algae problem. The wild coho fisheries at Siltcoos and Tahkenitch will improve in late October and into November.

Southwest ??? If the offshore forecast holds true, wind and waves will not allow boaters to cross into the ocean this week.

The North Umpqua has disappointed anglers for summer steelhead with a poor return. Some fish remain available in the flies-only section but will soon enter the tributaries which are closed to fishing. Chinook and coho catches picked up over the past week in the lower Umpqua, estuary and in Winchester Bay. Charters were able to cross into the ocean on Sunday, October 14th to find ling cod on the bite. Many party fishing operations will be shutting down soon to re-open early next season.

Chinook fishing has been spotty in Coos Bay and Coquille tidewater, but fish are being taken daily.

Trollers in the Rogue River estuary have made some good catches of Chinook to 40 pounds or better recently. Weather conditions this week may prevent fishing on some days.

The ocean fishery off the Chetco River closed October 14th, but fish that have entered the Chetco estuary and Brookings Harbor should provide decent chinook fishing to trollers running plug-cut herring right on the bottom.

Pressure is light for late-season trout fishing on Diamond Lake, but those fishing it are reporting good catches of trout to 20 inches.

No trout stocking is scheduled for the remainder of the 2007 season in the Southwest Zone.

Eastern ??? Traffic has been picking up on the Deschutes, particularly around Maupin. Over the weekend under moderate pressure, fishing was slow to fair despite good numbers of fish present from the mouth to Warm Springs. Caddis patterns have been taking redsides.

Steelheading should start up at the end of the month on the Grande Ronde with the better fishing in November and December. The weather is frigid however.

In the last scheduled planting of waters in the Deschutes watershed, Bandon will receive hatchery trout.