SPOrT FISHIng regulaTIOnS - Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

Species Name Catch Limits Length Limits and Other Specifications Season
Other Fish:
Whitefish,
Sucker, Northern
Pikeminnow,
Carp, Chub,
Sculpin and other
Nongame Fish
No limit. • Angling restricted to artificial flies and lures in streams. See exceptions
under Special Regulations where use of bait is allowed.
All trout, salmon and steelhead that are released must be unharmed and should not
be removed from the water.
Text highlighted in blue is new or changed from 2012
Lakes: Open all year.
Streams: Open
during trout, salmon
or steelhead
seasons only,
except portions of
Columbia River
tributaries flooded
by Bonneville and
The Dalles dams are
open all year.
Bullfrogs No limit. • An angling license is not required. Open all year.
Crayfish 100 per day,
2 daily limits in
possession.
• Neither an angling nor a shellfish license is required. All streams are
open to crayfish harvest including streams listed as closed under
Special Regulations.
Freshwater Harvest prohibited • It is illegal to harvest or possess any freshwater mussels or clams Closed.
Clams and
unless authorized by a specific permit issued by the Oregon Fish
Mussels
and Wildlife Commission (Scientific Take Permit).
Special Regulations for This Zone:
Water Special Regulations
Bakeoven Creek and tributaries
(Deschutes Basin, Wasco Co.)
• Closed.
Baker Pond (Wasco Co.) • Open all year.
Bend Pine Nursery Pond
(Deschutes Co.)
• Limit 2 fish per day, 8 inch minimum length for trout.
Billy Chinook, Lake (Round Butte) • Open March 1-Oct. 31. In addition to an Oregon angling license, a tribal angling permit
(Jefferson Co.):
is required; see Special Regulations for Warm Springs Reservation at end of this zone.
1. Metolius Arm (tribal water):
• Closed to all angling from the cable car crossing on the Metolius River to a signed point
East Boundary - a line running from approximately 350 yards downstream.
the west abutment of Round Butte • Closed for crayfish (except tribal fishery) in Metolius Arm (tribal water).
Dam to the southern land point where
the Deschutes and Metolius arms
intersect.
West Boundary - cable car crossing.
• All bag limits and other restrictions from balance of reservoir apply (see below).
2. Balance of reservoir • Open all year.
• One bull trout per day and 1 bull trout in possession; 24 inch minimum length.
• Unlawful to hold live bull trout.
• Bull trout must be immediately released unharmed unless kept in the daily catch limit.
• Trout daily limit, 5 trout per day, only 1 trout over 20 inches may be taken per day.
• Kokanee are included as part of the trout bag limit.
• Rainbow trout over 20 inches are considered steelhead and Kokanee over 16 inches
are considered sockeye, and must be released unharmed.
• 10 bass per day, no minimum length limit.
Note: Upstream of ODFW marker in Crooked and Deschutes River arms:
1. Open all year.
2. Angling restricted to artificial flies and lures only with a 2 trout per day bag limit.
Browns Creek (Wickiup Reservoir
tributary, Deschutes Co.)
• Closed.
Buck Hollow Creek and tributaries
(Deschutes Basin, Wasco Co.)
• Closed.
Candle Creek (Jefferson Co.) • Closed.
Canyon Creek and tributaries (Jeff. Co.) • Closed.
Chenoweth Creek and tributaries
(Wasco Co.)
• Catch and release for trout.
Crane Prairie Reservoir
• Open April 27-Oct. 31.
(Deschutes Co.)
• Closed from 1 hour after sunset until 1 hour before sunrise.
• The 5 trout daily limit may include only 1 non-fin-clipped rainbow trout and only 1
rainbow trout over 16 inches in length.
Crescent Lake (Klamath Co.) • Trout daily catch limit may include only 1 lake trout, 30 inch minimum length.
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