SPOrT FISHIng regulaTIOnS - Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

Species Name Catch Limits Length Limits and Other Specifications Season
Warmwater 5 per day, 2 • No more than 3 bass over 15 inches in length.
Open all year.
Game Fish daily limits in
Largemouth and
Smallmouth Bass
possession. Note: See Special Regulations for bass above McNary Dam.
Warmwater 2 per 24 hours; • 24 inch minimum length. Open all year.
Game Fish 2 daily limits in
Striped Bass possession.
Bluegill, Catfish,
Crappie, other
Sunfish, and
Yellow Perch
No limit. • None.
Walleye 10 per day, 2 daily • No more than 5 per day over 18 inches and only one may be over
limits in posession 24 inches.
Other Fish No limit. • Shad angling closed from Buoy 10 line upstream to Bonneville Dam Open all year
Shad
April 1-May 15.
except as listed
under Other
Specifications.
Sturgeon 1 per day, 1 per • Closed to retention of green sturgeon.
Note: Sturgeon
year.
• See page 21 for tag return information.
fisheries are
• 38 inch minimum and 54 inch maximum fork length from river mouth managed on a
upstream to The Dalles Dam except the minimum length down- quota basis. Anglers
stream of Wauna power lines is 41 inch fork length effective May 1. should check the
• 43 inch minimum and 54 inch maximum fork length from The Dalles status of regulations
Dam upstream to the Oregon-Washington border
prior to fishing.
• All oversized, undersized, and unwanted legal size white sturgeon Catch and
must be immediately released unharmed into the water.
Release: Open
• Oversize sturgeon cannot be removed totally or in part from the water. all year, except as
• Only one single-point, barbless hook may be used for sturgeon. noted under Special
• Catch and release of sturgeon may continue after taking the daily or Regulations.
annual limit or when quota is reached.
Northern
Pikeminnow,
Carp, Sucker,
Chub, Sculpin,
Whitefish and
other Nongame
Fish
No limit. • None. Open all year.
Smelt Closed. • Unlawful to take or attempt to take Eulachon smelt in inland waters Closed all year.
including bays, estuaries, rivers and streams. See Marine Sport
Fish Identification Key at: www.dfw.state.or.us/MRP/FishID.
Crayfish 100 per day, 2
daily limits in
possession.
• Neither an angling nor a shellfish license is required. Open all year.
Freshwater Harvest prohibited • It is illegal to harvest or possess any freshwater mussels or clams Closed all year.
Clams and
unless authorized by a specific permit issued by the Oregon Fish
Mussels
and Wildlife Commission (Scientific Take Permit).
Bullfrogs No limit. • An angling license is not required. Open all year.
Marine Fish and See Marine Zone, pages 101-109. (Marine Zone regulations for marine fish and marine shellfish only apply to
Marine Shellfish Columbia River downstream of Tongue Point/Rocky Point line at the mouth of the Columbia River.)
(other than
Eulachon Smelt)
Special Regulations for this zone:
Water Special Regulations
Columbia River:
• Closed for trout.
1. Buoy 10 line upstream to a line • Open for adipose fin-clipped steelhead Jan. 1-March 31 and Aug. 1-Dec. 31.
projected from Rocky Point on the • Open for adipose fin-clipped Chinook salmon and adipose fin-clipped coho salmon
Washington bank through red buoy 44 Jan. 1-March 31.
to the navigation light at Tongue Point • Open for Chinook salmon and adipose fin-clipped coho Aug. 1-Dec. 31, except only adult
on the Oregon bank
Chinook salmon and adult adipose fin-clipped coho salmon may be kept Aug. 1-Sept. 30.
• Minimum sizes for adult salmon are 24 inches for Chinook salmon and 16 inches for
coho salmon.
• The Columbia River South Jetty is open to salmon fishing seven days a week when the
fall Buoy 10 or adjacent ocean salmon fishery is open. Before Aug. 1 barbless hooks
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are required.
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