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Planning your 2021-22 Sauvie Island hunt? Check the weekly Hunt Reports (video), Eastside reservation summaries, and daily harvest summaries to see where the successful hunters have been shooting.
Planning your 2020-21 Sauvie Island hunt? Check the weekly Hunt Reports (video), Eastside reservation summaries, and daily harvest summaries to see where the successful hunters have been shooting.
Planning your 2018-19 Sauvie Island hunt? Check the weekly Hunt Reports (video), Eastside reservation summaries, and daily harvest summaries to see where the successful hunters have been shooting.
Planning your 2019-20 Sauvie Island hunt? Check the weekly Hunt Reports (video), Eastside reservation summaries, and daily harvest summaries to see where the successful hunters have been shooting.
Pot calls, often called slate calls, are friction-style calls that are easy to use and produce a range of turkey sounds. Parts of a pot call A pot call consists of three parts: a pot, a calling surface and a striker. The pot holds the slate and acts as a sound chamber. There are holes drilled in the bottom for sound to escape. To keep from covering the holes, hold the pot with the tips of your fingers, keeping it away from the palm of your hand. Pot calls can be made to be all-weather, with the right striker. The
Oct. 23, 2024 If there’s not a photo, it didn’t happen Submit your fishing photo to ODFW and we might use it here or elsewhere on MyODFW.com. Best bets for weekend fishing Diamond Lake continues to be a good choice for trout fishing. Galesville Reservoir continues to produce good warmwater fishing and some large trout, too. Lost Creek Reservoir remains a good bet for trout anglers, along with the high elevation reservoirs like Hyatt, Howard Prairie and Fish Lake. Hyatt continues to produce large trout. Fish before the snow comes. Emigrant Lake remains a consistent producer of bass and panfish
Planning your 2022-23 Sauvie Island hunt? Check the weekly Hunt Reports (video), Eastside reservation summaries, and daily harvest summaries to see where the successful hunters have been shooting.
Turkey hunters using a shotgun face a very small target – the head and neck of a turkey. Combine that with today’s specialized turkey loads shooting very tight patterns, and making a clean kill shot might depend on a steady shooting rest. Turkeys are nervous-looking birds that seem to never stop moving. Because of their monocular vision and eyes set on the side of their skull, turkeys are often moving and bobbing their heads to try to decipher what they’re seeing. Consider a shooting rest If you’ve got your gun in a ready position, and are waiting for a turkey
Oct. 23, 2024 If there’s not a photo, it didn’t happen Submit your fishing photo to ODFW and we might use it here or elsewhere on MyODFW.com. Best bets for weekend fishing Fall salmon fishing is fair to good in Nestucca, Tillamook and Nehalem bays. Chinook are throughout the bays and tidewaters in these basins and starting to push into the lower rivers. The Trask and North Fork Nehalem also have hatchery coho runs that are starting to move in. Wild coho fisheries on the North Coast closed October 23, there is no retention of wild coho allowed the
Oct. 23, 2024 If there’s not a photo, it didn’t happen Submit your fishing photo to ODFW and we might use it here or elsewhere on MyODFW.com. Best bets for weekend fishing The Metolius River continues be excellent for mountain whitefish, redband trout and bull trout. Kokanee are spawning in the Metolius, which means bull trout, redband trout and mountain whitefish will be congregating to forage on fish and fish eggs. Trophy trout averaging 3 pounds were recently stocked into the Fall River. Anglers and guides continue to report good nymphing for trout and whitefish on the Crooked River below
Oct. 9, 2024 If there’s not a photo, it didn’t happen Submit your viewing photo to ODFW and we might use it here or elsewhere on MyODFW.com. Wildlife watchers: What to know about wildfires Wildfire season is hitting Oregon hard. Be sure to "know before you go" by checking for closures or fire restrictions before heading out. You can check for the latest fire updates and closures using the links on this webpage. Crook County There are red-tailed, rough-legged and ferruginous hawks, northern harriers, American kestrels, prairie falcons and golden eagles throughout Crook County and they're usually associated more closely