On May 1, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife implemented a liberalized trout bag limit for Thief Valley Reservoir. Well, they take it back.
The liberalized bag limit was put into place because wildlife officials expected low reservoir levels during the summer. Low water levels mean less room for trout to swim, and an overcrowded lake or reservoir can do serious damage to the trout’s ecosystem. Those reservoir level estimates came before the weeks and weeks of rain the Northwest experienced recently, so on June 11 the ODFW raised the bag limit back to the regular limit of five per day, with an 8-inch minimum length.
Wallowa Lake is home to many things: beautiful trees, clear water and, apparently, world record-sized kokanee salmon. Ron Campbell found this out on Sunday, June 13, when he caught a 27-inch-long, 9.67-pound kokanee.
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According to a recent press release from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, anglers fishing the Tualatin and Yamhill rivers this season will be allowed to keep up to two trout per day. This comes as great news to anglers along both rivers, where trout fishing has been limited to catch and release.
Good news for anglers in the Columbia River area: Biologists in both Oregon and Washington have determined that the spring run of chinook this year will be much higher than previously anticipated. The original estimate used to set the spring chinook season was 282,000 as of February. A revised run prediction now has the count at 350,000. This increase came as a relief to biologists, who have seen inaccurate spring chinook predictions the past few years.
