Best bets for holiday fishing
Winter steelhead and ice fishing
With a couple of long holiday weekends coming up, there’s plenty of opportunities for anglers to spend some time outdoors:
· Winter steelhead fishing is underway, and with dry conditions in the forecast, many rivers will be falling into fishable conditions as early as this weekend.
o Most north and mid-coast rivers are seeing some early fish, but best bets may be the Alsea, lower Columbia tributaries, North Fork Nehalem, Necanicum and Three Rivers.
o On the south coast, anglers have been catching fish in the Coos and Coquille basins, lower Rogue, Illinois and North Umpqua. Look for water conditions to improve later this week and into next.