The Caddis Fly: Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Join local businesses and community groups in a work party at a neighborhood park. Volunteers will be rolling up their sleeves and digging in on Saturday June 14, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Meet at Island Park boat landing. A massive effort will combine the talents of volunteers from REI Eugene and staff members from […]

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The Willamette River and most tributaries will close to chinook fishing this Sunday night. Of the tributaries above Willamette Falls, only the Molalla will remain open for chinook. Below Oregon City, the Clackamas and Sandy rivers shall remain open.
The closure is deemed necessary to allow hatchery managers to harvest 20,000 chinook for future runs. At […]

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We received this info from the Steamboaters:
On Monday May 5th 2008 Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) announced their proposed changes to the 2009-2012 Oregon Sport Fishing Regulations. There are eight different proposed regulations that would allow for the harvest of wild winter steelhead on the Umpqua system. A very vocal, organized group is […]

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On May 5 NOAA fisheries released its latest court ordered Biological Opinion  intended to guide the operation of the Snake and lower Columbia hydrosystem in a manner safe for the 13 threatened Snake/ Columbia River anadramous fish stocks.  This was the agency’s third attempt, the previous two biological opinions didn’t meet the requirements of the Endangered […]

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This week, the Oregon Council of Trout Unlimited launched a new blog. It’s a communications tool and publishing outlet for the state’s five (well five and-a-half) TU chapters. There’s a great post from TU State Council Chair Tom Wolf on the organization’s 2009 legislative agenda.
 Karl and Matt are onboard as contributors — stay tuned for Oregon […]

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This week, Gabe O’Campo of Eugene (past president of the Emerald Empire Chapter of the Northwest Steelheaders) wrote a great column in the Register-Guard, calling on Oregon anglers to get behind global warming legislation, and specifically to pressure Gordon Smith to sign-on to the Warner-Lieberman Climate Security Act.
From the article: Fisheries are being closed, […]

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Congressmen Peter DeFazio and Earl Blumenauer recently proposed an “Oregon Treasures” bill that would add 132,000 acres of wilderness, 34,550 acres of recreation area and 80 miles of wild and scenic river designations to the Mount Hood National Forest as well as protect 142 miles of lower and middle Rogue River tributaries as wild and […]

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The proposed Copper-Salmon Wilderness area in the headwaters region of the Elk River in southern Oregon came another step closer to becoming a reality yesterday.  The bill came out of committee in the House of Representatives as a clean bill with no amendments offered.  A similar bill has already come out of committee in the U.S. […]

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Two pieces of Oregon salmon news this week.
First, Oregon fisheries managers say it’s likely that anglers will be facing tighter restrictions this year in light of the dismal chinook returns predicted for the Pacific Northwest. According to an article in The Oregonian, biologists are considering reducing the bag limit from two fish to one this […]

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There was a great article by former Oregon governor John Kitzhaber in the Oregonian last week, calling for more protection on the Rogue River.
While the lower Rogue has a narrow strip of protection along the river’s edge, it is critical that we take a watershed approach and protect the important tributary streams and uplands […]

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