Ocean salmon remains closed through May 15

The Oregon coast from Cape Falcon to Humbug Mt. will remain closed to ocean salmon fishing through May 15.

Rogue-South Coast steelhead validation starts Jan. 1

Beginning Jan. 1, 2023, anglers in Rogue and South Coast rivers will need the new steelhead validation and harvest tag to fish for and harvest wild winter steelhead.

Razor clamming closed from Columbia River to CA border.

Due to high levels of domoic acid, razor clamming is closed along the entire Oregon coast.

Quillback rockfish

The quillback rockfish has extra long, strong, and sharp dorsal fin spines.

A person holds a quillback rockfish out of the water. The dorsal spines are splayed making it evident where this fish's name came from

Features: Quillback rockfish are slate-brown and mottled with yellow and orange towards the head. They have deeply incised membranes on their very long, spinous dorsal fins. They can grow to be 24-inches long.

Habitat: They prefer rocky bottoms from roughly 150 feet on out to 800 feet off or Oregon.

Technique: They readily take both bait and lures. Rubber-tailed lead head jigs fished near the bottom will provide better success for quillback rockfish.  

Angler fly fishing in a stream

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