Right now, it can seem as if every fishing boat in the Northwest is at Drano Lake, circling the Toilet Bowl for spring Chinook. But there is another hot bite in the Gorge that is not getting as much ...

Imagine a place where trophy walleyes can be caught, fisheries biologists encourage you to keep what you catch, and there is no daily creel limit in effect. Welcome to Oregon, a state where walleyes ...

PORTLAND — Sturgeon fishing will not open as usual on Jan. 1, 2026, for the Bonneville and The Dalles pools on the Columbia River. Fishery managers in Oregon and Washington decided during a hearing on ...

Evan Yarbrough was fishing the Willamette River with his friends outside Eugene when he hooked something big. At first he thought he was snagged. Then he figured it was a huge carp or sucker fish. But ...

The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission opened a new salmon fishing season on the Coquille River and approved a new statewide kokanee bag limit during a Sept. 12 meeting in Ontario. The changes, which ...

In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness looks at the curious case of how a non-native fish, walleye, showed up at Lookout Point Reservoir and was then flushed into the Upper ...