Skiers and snowmobile riders may lament winter’s tardiness, but the balmy conditions have been a boon for steelhead anglers. Fishing for the ocean-going rainbow trout has been especially good recently ...

TILLAMOOK, Ore. — Volunteers help create a stronger fishing future on many Oregon streams. That’s especially true for a group of anglers who live for winter steelhead fishing on Tillamook County’s ...

It’s the last weekend of summer and the forecast predicts sun and highs in the 70s on the horizon. Couldn’t really ask for more. Temperatures may even get to the 80s early into next week. And with the ...

Kyle Bratcher had been warning Northeastern Oregon steelhead anglers this summer to brace for a fall of futility. A season of fruitless casts and unnecessary nets. But then, after three weeks or so ...

It has been a good year for fish returns in the Columbia River, and the high numbers of summer steelhead passing through Bonneville Dam are enough to keep fishing open on the Lower Deschutes River.

Over the past few years, summer steelhead fishing on the North Santiam River has been so bad that longtime guide Mike Ferris decided to stay home and buy a lottery ticket. “I figured that I had the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon biologists have recorded the highest number of adult steelhead trout to return to the Deschutes River since the 1960s. Members of the Pelton Round Butte hydroelectric ...

New permits will be required to paddle boats while fishing, hunting and visiting state parks will be more expensive in 2026.