Might be kind of a dumb question I want to fly fish. I’m staying in nob hill and want to fish just like a small stream or creek for small trout is there any creeks within like 30 mins I can ride a like scooter to?
Thanks to all the guys giving me a bit of advice of where and what to throw. I had a 1.5 hour window to fish at Bingen Point from shore. I caught 8 bass in that time with a 3.25 inch strike king rage swimmer on a round jig head just dragged across the bottom and along the riprap. Mostly dinks but had a chunky 13 incher. I will one day return with my kayak.(life vest provided a little extra warmth)
Was really wanting to catch a salmon in my boat for the first time. Went out with my buddy and my dad and brother in my dads boat, my buddy caught this nice coho while we were right next to my dad
Was targeting surf perch using a hi/lo type rig with gulp sandworms and sand crabs and 4oz pyramid sinker. Ended up getting skunked but it was still worth it.
Ended up catching a lot of dungeness crabs the following day which made up for it
I'm looking forward to targeting some coho and steelhead next. I am from the east coast so these species and water are all new to me. But every single place I go just blows me away with the natural beauty.
My boyfriend and I have been wanting to go magnet fishing for a long time. I just got him a kit for his birthday and we don't know where to go. Does anyone know any good spots to go magnet fishing in our around Southeast Portland? Or even a place to go metal detecting?? Edit: I got the 1000 lb magnet kit off of Amazon 😶 The brand is FindMag...I read the reviews and they seemed pretty good... But I'm new to this, so I prob didn't get the best one.
Coho are fun but I could not keep myself off the mountain this weekend. This time of year I do better targeting them in the inlet channels in lakes rather than streams. Was able to get into staging Kokanee as well as brookies.
Got about 6 brookies and a limit of Kokanee. Everything’s a little colored up by now but that never hurt nobody :)
Also had a beautiful girl stop while she was trail running and talk to me about the fish for a few minutes. I am STILL kicking myself that I didn’t give her my number. If she’s somehow reading this, send me a message lol
I live in Eugene and am looking to start salmon fishing this fall. I don’t have access to a boat so bank fishing is my only option. Looking for river suggestions that’s good for bank fishing for chinook/ coho. I am willing to drive.
I wanted to put this on the radar of the Oregon fishing community because I think it has implications beyond just Eagle Creek National Fish Hatchery.
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has opened public comment on Eagle Creek National Fish Hatchery's proposed **National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit**. That's essentially the water-quality permit regulating what the hatchery can discharge back into Eagle Creek.
The biggest issue for us is a new set of temperature requirements associated with the **2025 Willamette Subbasin Temperature Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL)**. A TMDL establishes how much of a pollutant in this case excess heat a waterbody can receive while still meeting Oregon's water-quality standards.
I work at Eagle Creek National Fish Hatchery, so I've been following this closely.
Eagle Creek is a **flow-through hatchery**. We take water directly from Eagle Creek, use it to raise salmon, and return it to the same creek. We have essentially no ability to control the temperature of the water when it reaches our intake.
During warm summer conditions, that incoming water can already be warmer than the applicable temperature criterion. Under one of the final compliance options in the proposed permit, called **Minimum Duties**, the allowable additional thermal load is **0.0 million kilocalories per day** when the incoming water is already warmer than the temperature allowed under the wasteload allocation.
In plain English: under that option, when the creek is already too warm, the hatchery essentially cannot add a positive net thermal load to the water. Otherwise, we have to meet one of the permit's other compliance options.
That's where I see the practical problem:
**We raise salmon. These temperature standards are intended to protect salmon. But we cannot control the temperature of Eagle Creek before the water reaches the hatchery.**
There are technically ways to address this, but cost becomes a major issue. Cooling towers, chillers or groundwater systems might be possible, but Eagle Creek is continuously moving a large volume of water. Cooling that much water even a small amount could require major infrastructure, substantial power use and ongoing maintenance.
**The issue isn't whether engineers can dream up a way to cool the water it's whether anyone has the money to build and operate it at the scale a flow-through hatchery requires.**
Another potential pathway in the draft permit is **thermal-credit water-quality trading**. That could involve funding off-site riparian restoration including planting trees along streams to increase shade and reduce solar heating and then documenting enough temperature benefit to generate thermal credits that offset part of the hatchery's calculated thermal load.
DEQ's draft actually provides a compliance schedule of up to **10 years** if water-quality trading is pursued because of the time required to develop a trading plan, locate land for riparian revegetation and generate the necessary credits.
This also isn't just an Eagle Creek issue.
In 2024, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife temporarily closed **Leaburg and McKenzie River hatcheries** for the summer and moved fish off-site specifically to comply with DEQ permit conditions.
[ODFW: Leaburg and McKenzie River hatcheries temporarily closed](https://www.dfw.state.or.us/news/2024/05\_May/052424b.asp)
The temperature requirements affecting Eagle Creek come from the broader Willamette Subbasin temperature framework, so I think anglers should pay attention to how these requirements are incorporated into other flow-through hatchery permits as they are renewed.
I'm fully supportive of protecting cold-water habitat and improving conditions for salmon and steelhead. My concern is whether this permitting approach adequately accounts for the physical limitations of flow-through hatcheries and whether limited hatchery dollars end up going toward cooling equipment, flow-monitoring systems and off-site thermal-credit projects instead of fish production, staffing and aging hatchery infrastructure.
### Want to read the actual permit or comment?
**Public comments are open until 5:00 p.m. Thursday, November 5, 2026.**
**Oregon DEQ Public Notices:**
https://www.oregon.gov/deq/Get-Involved/Pages/Public-Notices.aspx
**Your DEQ Online:**
https://ordeq-edms-public.govonlinesaas.com/pub/login
Once in **Your DEQ Online**:
Select **"Public Notices Only"**
Search **Submittal #101462**
Open **USFW – Eagle Creek National Fish Hatchery**
Click the blue information **"i"** on the right
Select the **"Comments"** tab
You can submit a comment without creating an account unless you want to attach a file.
DEQ also has instructions here:
https://www.oregon.gov/deq/permits/pages/ydo-public-involvement.aspx
Whether you agree with my concerns or not, I'd encourage people to **read the permit for themselves** and submit their own comments to DEQ if they have something to add.
I'd also really like to hear from anyone working around other Oregon hatcheries: **Are you seeing similar temperature requirements as your NPDES permits are renewed?**
super noob here I dont think ive ever caught a fresh water fish before. but I see season is 1-15 and my brother is down to go tomorrow would love some advice we both have poles and know pretty much jack about fishing
>The Hood River County Sheriff’s Office responded to numerous reports of a small boat left adrift near a sandbar in the Columbia River just after 2 p.m. on Thursday.
>After these calls, the Hood River County Sheriff’s Office Marine Patrol found a fishing kayak in the same area with its trolling motor left running.
My deepest condolences to the family. Everyone stay safe out on the water, know your limits and always use proper flotation gear.