Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
The recent heavy rain that swept across the state brought moderate flooding to many coastal rivers and streams. But nowhere in Oregon was the flooding critical. It was a good flushing, and as the waters began to recede, anglers were delighted to find the first…
Way back in the day, it was pretty easy. With your fishing license in hand, you’d head out, park anywhere you wanted, and recreate on public lands that, for the most part, were free of fees and access restrictions. Unfortunately, all of us…
In decades past, it was about Thanksgiving of each year that hatchery winter steelhead would begin to quietly slip into our coastal rivers and by the middle of December we would be well into a season that still runs into the spring of each year.…
It’s been a challenging season of sport fishing, a lack of consistency between fisheries and regions being the main driver. Fall fishing was good in a few places, fair on some rivers and poor on most others. My fall favorite has always been steelhead fishing…
The arrival of the first significant rainfall of the season always means that the bay fishing season for fall salmon will also soon be winding down. Now, by no means is the fall salmon season over but the dense accumulation of salmon that provided much…
In spite of ominous warnings issued by salmon fisheries officials predicting “low numbers” of returning fall salmon this season, the salmon angling experience on the Siuslaw and other coastal rivers has been far better than anyone expected. With predictions so off-base, the ODFW is likely…
The article in the Aug. 17 edition of The Chronicle by Erin Tierney-Heggenstaller (“Smoke & Heat High Temps Strike”) reported on the number of wildfires that had recently ignited in forested parts of eastern Lane County. The story noted that those fires were made worse…
As I sit here writing this, the hazy air brings up anxiety reminiscent of September 2020. It also brings up frustrations over the continued mismanagement of our federally managed state lands. I’m Melinda Montgomery. My roots in Lane County go back to the 1850s when…
As the story goes, it was in the early 1960s that the ODFW planted a few dozen smallmouth bass into the main Umpqua River near Elkton. Salmon and steelhead primarily used the main river as a highway to reach their spawning waters in the rivers’…