Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
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 With the winter solstice upon us, we have entered a season of renewal and it’s time to renew those soon to be outdated fishing licenses…
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 the kickoff of the year’s…
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 for anglers and other outdoors…
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 advantage of what was generally…
The recent cool-down and a little early fall rain has been a welcome event for anglers across our region. The largest opportunity for anglers in Oregon is always trout: catch and release for wild trout and catch and keep for hatchery trout. The ODFW’s trout…
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 was hot but the summary…
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 stood at the edge of…
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 of the ample spring precipitation,…
ODF Invasive Species Specialist WyattWilliams points to a tiny D-shaped exit hole made by an emerald ash borer as it emerged from an ash tree in Forest Grove. The long-anticipated arrival in Oregon this summer of the destructive emerald ash borer sharpens concerns about the…