The bite has been steady over the holiday weeks
by OR Department of Fish & Wildlife Staff
1-17-2024
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Like the Salmon and Alsea rivers, the first few winter steelhead are beginning to enter the Siletz Basin. The Siletz also has a hatchery component to its steelhead run and provides a great opportunity early in the season for steelhead retention. Most of the early component fish have shot up and are likely hanging around in the upper Siletz Gorge. The Gorge provides excellent bank fishing opportunity but as winter flows settle in be mindful of traversing the river at higher flows.
The bite has been steady over the holiday weeks, but moving into January has definitley slowed down. With the amount of rain, we have seen we should start to see those January fish moving around in the system up in the Gorge.
Trout fishing closed Oct. 31.
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OR Department of Fish & Wildlife Reports
for Wednesday, January 17th
John Day River: With recent warm and wet weather, steelhead are moving into the lower river
Alsea River: Some early winter steelhead have entered the Alsea River basin
Kilchis River: The Kilchis is on the way up today along with the rest of the North Coast Rivers
Miami River: The steelhead run on Miami will peak January through March
Necanicum River: The Necanicum River should have hatchery steelhead throughout the fishery and wild fish showing up this month
Nehalem River: The Nehalem is on the way up and will likely be high and off color for the week
Nehalem River- North Fork: The North Fork Nehalem has been getting moderate returns of hatchery winter steelhead
Nestucca River: Nestucca River Fishing Report
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