Category Outdoors

This 38-inch, 18- to 20-pound buck fell to a Mag Lip plug. The fish also had sustained some kind of attack but was completely healed over and ran off 200 feet of line before I was able to turn him back toward the boat. Super…

Detroit Lake is open year-round and located only 56 miles east of Salem. It is famous as a summer Kokanee fishery. It’s also stocked with trout each spring and just received a large delivery of trout. Lake levels are online at usace.army. Photos courtesy of…

Rivers have been running high, offering only small windows where conditions have been suitable and safe for boating. Conditions were fair at the start of this day but heavy showers settled in and the Siuslaw blows out about noon. Frank Armendariz/The Chronicle There’s something for…

Barbara Norregaard of Lorane is a steelheader and a STEP volunteer; several times a week, she feeds steelhead smolts that are raised at a STEP hatchery on Letz Creek. Frank Armendariz/The Chronicle The series of Pacific storms that began to sweep across our state and…

The Siuslaw like most coast steelhead streams was in perfect shape last weekend. More rain is in the forecast and conditions are right for improving success. Frank Armendariz/The Chronicle At the top of the report this week is the annual run of folks heading to…

I shared a stretch of riverbank along Lake Creek last weekend with Justin Ellis and his buddy Sam, both from Junction City. It was a slow morning for us all, but more steelhead are on the way. The peak of the annual mid-coast runs comes…

The dunes remain a place where solitude and simplicity can still be found. Frank Armendariz/The Chronicle FLORENCE – The Oregon dunes began to form about 100,000 years ago and are now among Oregon’s oldest geological features. To add a little perspective, 100,000 ago was about…

Lake Creek, a tributary of the Siuslaw River, was low and clear and cold last weekend – a scenario that is being repeated up and down the Oregon Coast. Frank Armendariz/For The Chronicle The fact of the matter is, fish like stability. They thrive within…

The weather on the coast has been spectacular this fall, but the lack of rain has many salmon and winter steelhead anglers strolling the beaches with an eye to the west, hoping for a major change. We need rain! FRANK ARMENDARIZ Photo/Frank Armendariz I spoke…