ODFW Weekly Recreation Report Highlights


by ODFW
11-7-2018
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Coming soon – New ELS launches Dec. 1
ODFW will launch a new modernized electronic licensing system (ELS) on Dec. 1 for the sale of 2019 licenses and tags. Customers will be able to:

  • Buy license/tags online at MyODFW.com
  • Carry documents and tag animal/fish with app on your smartphone (works offline)
  • OR buy online, print paper license/tags at home
  • OR buy paper or electronic tags from a license sales agent

ODFW recommends you hang onto your hunting/fishing license until you verify your new account. To find out more, visit https://myodfw.com/articles/odfws-new-electronic-licensing-system-els

Take a friend hunting – Chance win a statewide deer tag or other great prizes
Take someone who is new to the sport out hunting—or even someone who hasn’t hunted in awhile! Then enter to win some great prizes including the grand prize of a statewide deer tag for 2020. Learn all the details.

Best bets for weekend fishing
It’s fall and the lake trout are hungrier this time of year because they know winter and slim pickings are just around the corner. Here are a few of the options from this week’s Recreation Report:

  • Trophy trout – 800 of them have been released in Bradley Lake near Bandon. Trophies, which weigh in at about two pounds apiece, have also been released in several water bodies in the Coos Bay area. Timothy Lake on the Mt. Hood National Forest is another good bet for larger trout as it has had multiple trophy releases earlier this season, and it is large and cool enough to hold them through the summer.
  • If you’re in the mood for a fish fry, yellow perch fishing on Tenmile Lakes has been very good.
  • Brood trout – Highly prized by trout fishermen, these large trout (some weighing upward of 15 pounds) are released in Willamette Valley fishing ponds and lake to make room for new stock at the hatcheries. The first cropstocked at Walter Wirth Lake in Salem.
  • There are reports of coho being caught on the lower Rogue.
  • Coho season is also under way on the Clackamas, Sandy and Willamette rivers. The mouths of the tributaries, including the mouth of the Tualatin, Molalla, and Pudding are places to try, as is the mouth of Cedar Creek on the Sandy and mouth of Eagle Creek on the Clackamas.
  • Anglers are catching fall Chinook at Sherars Falls on the lower Deschutes.
  • Chickahominy, Yellowjacket, Cottonwood Meadows and Anthony lakes are all popular destinations for fall trout fishing.
  • An October caddis hatch on the Wallowa River can lead to some good dry fly action.
  • On the John Day, water levels have come up and steelhead have started to arrive.

If you didn’t apply for a tag, don’t miss getting a point saver
Point savers for deer, elk and pronghorn hunts can be purchased through Nov. 30.

Give us a wing and a tail - Map of collection barrels for grouse and quail now available
If you bag a bird, don’t forget to give us a wing and a tail for any forest grouse or mountain quail you harvest! Use paper bags in the bright blue collection barrels placed at major road junctions or highways in hunting areas and at some ODFW offices and popular rural markets. Mark your harvest date plus county and general location where you hunted.

Here are maps of collection barrels in the NWSWColumbia, and NE areas.




More Reports

OR Department of Fish & Wildlife Reports
for Wednesday, October 31st, 2018
: ODFW Weekly Recreation Report Highlights
Snake River: One hatchery steelhead daily bag limit extended for the Snake River and tributaries

OR Department of Fish & Wildlife Reports
for Tuesday, October 30th, 2018
Alsea River: Alsea River Fishing Report
Kilchis River: Kilchis River Fishing Report
Nehalem River: Nehalem River Fishing Report
Nehalem River- North Fork: North Fork Nehalelem River Fishing Report
Nestucca River: Nestucca River Fishing Report
Salmon River: Salmon River Fishing Report
Siletz River: Siletz River Fishing Report
Siuslaw River: Siuslaw River Fishing Report
Trask River: Trask River Fishing Report
Wilson River: Wilson River Fishing Report
Yaquina River: Yaquina River Fishing Report
Applegate Reservoir: Applegate Reservoir Fishing Report
Applegate River: Applegate River Fishing Report
Arizona Pond: Arizona Pond Fishing Report
Ben Irving Reservoir: Ben Irving Reservoir Fishing Report
Chetco River: Chetco River Fishing Report
Coos River: Coos River Basin Fishing Report
Coquille River: Coquille River Fishing Report
Diamond Lake: Diamond Lake Fishing Report
Eel Lake: Eel Lake Fishing Report
Elk River: Elk River Fishing Report
Emigrant Reservoir: Emigrant Reservoir Fishing Report
Empire Lake Upper: Empire Lakes Fishing Report
Expo Pond: Expo Pond Fishing Report
Fish Lake : Fish Lake Fishing Report
Floras Lake: Floras Lake Fishing Report
Galesville Reservoir: Galesville Reservoir Fishing Report
Garrison Lake: Garrison Lake Fishing Report
Hemlock Lake: Hemlock Lake Fishing Report
Howard Prairie Reservoir: Howard Prairie Reservoir Fishing Report
Hyatt Lake: Hyatt Lake Fishing Report
Illinois River: Illinois River Fishing Report
Lake Marie: Lake Marie Fishing Report
Lake Selmac: Lake Selmac Fishing Report
Lemolo Lake: Lemolo Lake Fishing Report
Loon Lake: Loon Lake Fishing Report
: Lost Creek Fishing Report
Plat I Reservoir: Plat I Reservoir Fishing Report
Smith River: Smith River Fishing Report
Tenmile Lakes: Tenmile Lakes Fishing Report
Willow Lake: Willow Lake Fishing Report