Recreational bay crabbing is closed from Cape Blanco to the CA border. Closure includes Dungeness crab and red rock crab harvested from bays and estuaries in this area.

Beginning Dec. 1, temporary wild winter steelhead harvest restrictions will be in affect on Illinois, Rogue rivers.

Razor clam harvesting is now closed from Cascade Head to the California border the Oregon Department of Agriculture and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced today.

The lowest reach of Eagle Creek on Clackamas River closed to angling Sept. 27 through Oct. 31

Fishing

Snake Zone

The Snake River and its impoundments offer first class fishing for warmwater species such as channel catfish, crappie and smallmouth bass. That part of the river running through the spectacular Hells Canyon Wilderness may have some of the best summer steelhead fishing in the state.

Snake Zone

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Regulation Highlights

Always check the Sport Fishing Regulations for exceptions to these rules.

Trout

Six fish per day, no minimum length limit, open all year

Salmon

Closed unless a special season is announced

Steelhead

Three hatchery fish per day, open Sept. 1 to April 30

Bass

Six per day, no more than three over 15-inches

Crappie and catfish

No limits

Fishing in the Snake Zone

Salmon

The Snake River is often closed to salmon fishing, but some years returns are hefty enough to allow some spring and/or fall Chinook fishing from Hells Canyon Dam downstream to the Oregon/Washington border.

Steelhead

A good number of hatchery fish are released into Snake River tributaries and at the base of Hells Canyon Dam to provide a good summer steelhead fishery from October through March. This area is in the heart of the Hells Canyon Wilderness and access is tough – usually by foot or by boat. Determined anglers can be rewarded with some of the best steelhead fishing in the state.

Crappie

The best crappie fishing in the state is often found in the Snake River Reservoirs – Hells Canyon, Oxbow and Brownlee. Brownlee is a well-known destination crappie fishery, though it also attracts anglers after smallmouth bass and catfish.