Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Editor’s note: This is the first of two parts. As I began to do the research for this week’s Angler’s Log, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate summary for July and August became available. Now we all know it…
You plan, you do the research, you have expectations, but until you find yourself on the way to a new adventure it’s sometimes hard to fully grasp the depth of the experience you are about to have. And as we…
FRANK ARMENDARIZ / FOR THE CHRONICLE Armendariz with an Umpqua smallmouth bass caught while fly fishing. Armendariz landed a couple of dozen fish that were much larger. Pictured is an average-sized fish from a stretch of the river down stream…
Angling adventures can be found down and around most bends in the road this time of the year. A wet spring filled the reservoirs, the lakes and ponds of western Oregon. Our rivers, streams and creeks are also the beneficiaries…
FRANK ARMENDARIZ/PHOTO- Stevie Parsons of Aloha Oregon with a very nice early season ocean caught hatchery coho. This salmon grabbed a super bait filled with tuna, one of the seven we kept on a hot morning of fishing out of…
The Lane County crabbing dock is on the south jetty of the Siuslaw River. A 30-mph wind had thinned the crowd on this day but the crabbing was good for the people who endured. Shad and other fish parts are…
FRANK ARMENDARIZ/PHOTO This small stream is a short drive from the southern Willamette Valley. On many late spring days it offers reasonable solitude and exists on public lands in the Siuslaw National Forest. THE ANGLER’S LOG It’s been an early…
The Port of Siuslaw on a recent spring day, about what you would expect. By September the port is normally bustling but a recent ruling by the ODFW has closed salmon fishing in the bay and river for the entire…
FRANK ARMENDARIZ / THE CHRONICLE – Orchard Point Marina on Fern Ridge Reservoir. April rain has nearly filled Fern Ridge and several other reservoirs in the Willamette Valley. With more wet weather in the forecast, the boating season in 2022…
2019 FILE PHOTO – Fishing is foundational to the economy of the McKenzie River Valley. The pandemic presented its challenges that we are now past. Because of the fire, for decades things will look and feel different on the river.…