Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
As I prepare this week’s Angler’s Log, the patter of raindrops is clearly audible on my roof and my most immediate observation of the upcoming week’s fishing conditions is that it is hard to overlook how persistent Old Man Winter…
“Hyper-local” is not just a saying but a business model that The Chronicle has been true to, and in my biweekly fishing report I do the best I can to highlight those hyper-local fishing locations for you. I do occasionally…
It’s a function of the lengthening daylight hours to chase the chill of winter and usher in the spring each year. The sunshine buds out the river’s edge foliage and, most importantly to anglers, stimulates the first of the aquatics…
If you put your ear to the wind, listen closely … you will likely hear the sound of winter steelhead fishers slamming the door on what has been a somewhat disappointing winter run, following an exceptional 2022, where we saw…
With the largest part of the energy going into California, a recent series of storms slammed into the West Coast, bringing gusty winds, heavy rain and some snow, but mostly rain to all the western states. To the good fortune…
Reports of winter steelhead finding their way home to Oregon’s coastal rivers have been modest although somewhat persistent throughout the length of the far western part of our state. In part one of a two-part series I will give you…
I do have some positive winter steelhead news and I will get to that a little further down the column. With the winter solstice upon us, we have entered a season of renewal and it’s time to renew those soon…
Oregon anglers historically saw the first of the winter steelhead arrive in our coastal waters about the end of November. But it’s been a couple of decades since Oregon anglers have been able to consider the Thanksgiving holiday weekend as…
Early last spring we had no idea that the coming summer would be so hot – in fact, the hottest summer in Willamette Valley history. May and June were awfully wet and the late-season precipitation felt like an endurance contest…
The ocean coho season unceremoniously came to a halt Sept. 30. Characteristic of a good part of the ocean salmon season, hazardous bar conditions and rough seas in the last few days of the season keep many anglers from taking…