Category Archives: Oregon Conservation News

Fishing, Hunting, and Conservation News, October 1913 – Part III

Posted on September 10, 2011 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

This from the Oregon Sportsman….. Notes from the counties. Clatsop – Ben Childers caught nine trout and one Jack salmon from the bridge at Seaside, using “mud cats” for bait. The first silver-sides were hooked in this locality the first … Continue reading →

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Oregon Hunting and Fishing Licenses Issued in 1912

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

This summary from the Oregon Sportsman, September 1913 issue. Statewide Summary of Oregon Resident Licenses, 1912 Hunting Resident Licenses at $1.00: $39,267 Angling Resident Licenses at $1.00: $43,433.00 Benton County Hunting: 905 – Angling: 840 Clatsop County Hunting: 869 – … Continue reading →

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Fishing, Hunting, and Conservation News, October 1913 – Part II

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

These notes are from the Oregon Sportsman. …. on the coast streams, the trout now decline the fly because of the abundant store of salmon eggs, which are spawned by the Chinook and river salmon, now coming in abundantly. Salmon … Continue reading →

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Fishing, Hunting, and Conservation News, October 1913 – Part I

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

These notes from the Oregon Sportsman. The time of the fly fisherman for the present year grows short, and after a few sharp frosts there will be no more of it. Then we must resort tot he winter lures – … Continue reading →

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Historical Perspectives on Oregon Fishing

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Oregon Fishing Perspectives. Someone said, sometime, that an understanding of the challenges we face, the decisions we make each day, could surely benefit from understanding the perspective of people who have preceded us. Or something philosophical like that.

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What every environmentally concerned citizen should know about hatchery trout

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

The McKenzie Fly Fishers, Trout Unlimited Chapter 678, and The Caddis Fly invite you to a free lecture by renowned author and environmentalist Anders Halvorsen, author of An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World. … Continue reading →

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Oregon Board of Forestry plan: High probability of contributing to local extinctions

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Back in April 2010, the Oregon Board of Forestry decided to clear cut salmonid protections in our Clatsop and Tillamook State Forests. Since then OSU has weighed in on the issue: From The Oregonian: In April, an independent review by … Continue reading →

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Trout Unlimited Whilamut Planting and Restoration Scheduled for Saturday

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Caddisfly

July 9th, 9:am-Noon: members of the McKenzie-Upper Willamette Trout Unlimited, Chapter 678 will continue with their mission of preserving cold flowing water, removing invasive weeds and restoring native habitat. We will be eliminating annual and perennial weeds and mulching native … Continue reading →

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Discontinue Snider Creek hatchery on Sol Duc

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

An urgent request from Native Fish Society, Wild Steelhead Coalition and Moldy Chum. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife will soon be making a decision regarding the future of the Snider Creek hatchery on the Olympic Peninsula’s Sol Duc … Continue reading →

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Clackamas Bull Trout reintroduction starts next week

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

From the Clackamas Bull Trout working group: In the past, bull trout were abundant and widely distributed in the Willamette Basin, including the Clackamas River. They were a historical component of the river’s native fish assemblage that evolved over thousands … Continue reading →

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First adult chinook returns to Upper Deschutes

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Jim Bartlett, Portland General Electric Fish Passage Biologist-Facilities Team Lead passed the following photos from the Round Butte hatchery from late last month:

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The Mckenzie River ‘On the Rise’ Episode Premiers Monday

Posted on May 22, 2011 by Caddisfly

Last summer Chris, Jason, myself and the crew at Barrett productions filmed an episode for Trout Unlimited’s excellent fly-fishing and conservation show, ‘On the Rise’ profiling the Mckenzie River, its redside trout and the ongoing dispute how to manage the … Continue reading →

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First Time Fisher and Open and Notorious Icthyphobe Catches Nice Redside!

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Caddisfly

Wherein I Touch a Fish and Do Not Even Die I’m scared of fish; terrified, in fact.  I know that this is a source of skeptical amusement for lots of people (particularly those reading this blog) and also that dating … Continue reading →

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Reminder: Trout Unlimited Meeting Tonight

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Caddisfly

Tonight, at 7:00 pm the Mckenzie-Upper Willamette chapter of Trout Unlimited will hold our monthly meeting at the Vet’s Club. We will not be having a speaker but rather will continue our round table discussion begun last month on the … Continue reading →

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This smolt looks really … weird

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Caddisfly

Earlier this week trout tagger extrordinaire Scott Kinney and I hit the lower Mckenzie trout population study area between Hendricks and Bellinger. It was the first time that I’ve fished the lower river since the high water levels of spring … Continue reading →

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