A fishing licenseIf you're not sure fishing will be your thing you can opt for a daily license. Children under age 12 do not need a license to fish for trout in Oregon. Free Fishing Weekend is always the first full weekend in June --no license is required to fish, crab or clam anywhere in Oregon.
you can catch catfish and the like at night. NO salmon or steel.
Seasonal Oregon Seafood Guide & Recipe
- Dungeness Crab: December to August.
- Sturgeon: April to August.
- Pink Shrimp: April to October.
- Albacore Tuna: June -October.
- Pacific Halibut: Short seasons in summer, until catch quotas met, set at June 22-24, July 6-8, July 20-22, and Aug 3-5.
SALEM, Ore. —Non-residents may fish and hunt in Oregon again beginning Tuesday, May 5. Recreational clamming and crabbing will remain closed to non-residents until further notice. Oregon and Washington will reopen salmon and steelhead fishing on the Columbia River next week.
Oregon's ocean offers a variety of fishing opportunities. For the ocean-going angler, whether on a private boat or a charter, there's trolling for halibut, tuna, salmon and ground fish. From shore, anglers canfish for rockfish and other groundfish near rocky jetties, or surfperch off sandy beaches.
Oregon Fishing
| Description | Resident |
|---|
| Annual Licenses |
| Angling | $41.00 |
| Sports Pac (Includes: Angling, Shellfish, and Hunting License; combined angling tag; spring turkey, cougar, general or controlled bear tag, elk and deer tags; upland bird and waterfowl validations) | $188.50 |
| Combination Angling and Hunting | $69.00 |
The river is open to fishing all year for trout, hatchery Chinook salmon, hatchery steelhead, and wild steelhead over 24 inches. Use of bait allowed April 22 – Oct 31, but beginning Nov. 1 anglers may only use lures and artificial flies.
the Chinook Salmon season will be open April 20-May 5, May 26-31, June 4-August 25, and September 1 through October 31. Beginning September 1, a 75 Chinook Salmon per vessel weekly limit (Thursday through Wednesday) will be in place.
Do not eat: Carp, brown bullhead, bass, walleye, and other resident fish (fish that live their whole lives in the Lower Willamette) should not be eaten at all. These fish have high concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and pose a risk to human health.
You'll find Chinook and Coho salmon, various kinds of trout including Steelhead, rainbow, and cutthroat, sturgeon, smallmouth and largemouth bass, crappie, walleye, catfish, and American shad when fishing the Willamette River. It's an impressive range, but some sections of the river produce more results than others.
COVID-19 Safety Closures and RestrictionsOur ranger districts are still closed to in-person business. We continue to connect and serve the public virtually using websites, emails and telephone calls. Warming shelters are closed for the 2020-2021 season due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Abundant rainfall feeds the massive Willamette River watershed, tamed by a system of reservoirs that are stocked annually with hundreds of thousands of rainbow trout. Salmon and steelhead navigate the Willamette River and its tributaries, many of which are also home to rainbow and cutthroat trout.
North Fork Reservoir, in ODFW's Willamette Zone, uses the same river opener applied to salmon and steelhead rivers in the region. It is open from the fourth Saturday in May through Oct. The daily limit is five hatchery rainbow trout trout, which must have a clipped and healed adipose fin.
Tualatin River is a stream in Oregon, United States. The most popular species caught here are Smallmouth bass, Largemouth bass, and Common carp 508 catches are logged on Fishbrain. Get water depth of Tualatin River and insights from other anglers.
The area between the Lake Oswego/Milwaukie railroad bridge and Willamette Falls is considered a sturgeon sanctuary From May through August and no sturgeon fishing is allowed, even catch-and-release.
Foster Reservoir, also commonly known as Foster Lake, also has bass, yellow perch, bluegill, crappie, bullhead catfish and kokanee.
What kind of fish are in Henry Hagg Lake?
Rainbow trout
Largemouth bass
Bluegill
Smallmouth bass
Yellow perch
