Nestucca River Fish Report

The wild coho fishery for Nestucca Bay starts Saturday, Sept. 10

Nestucca River - Pacific, OR

by OR Department of Fish & Wildlife Staff
9-8-2022
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Fall Chinook fishing in the Nestucca is slow and numbers are low as expected this time of year, but there are a few fish getting caught in the estuary. Last updated 8/31/22.

The wild coho fishery for Nestucca Bay starts this Saturday, Sept. 10. The season is open Wednesdays and Saturdays Sept. 10 – Oct. 15. Open dates for wild coho are: Sept. 10, 14, 17, 21, 24, 28 and Oct. 1, 5, 8, 12, 15. As part of your 2 adult salmon/steelhead daily bag limit, only 1 can be a wild adult coho. No more than 1 wild adult coho for the season from the Nestucca Basin. No more than 1 wild jack coho may be retained as part of the jack salmon bag limit per day during the open season for adult wild coho.

Wild coho open areas are Nestucca Bay from the mouth upstream to the Cloverdale Bridge, and on the Little Nestucca River upstream to the Hwy 130 Bridge (MP 1.2)

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OR Department of Fish & Wildlife Reports

for Thursday, September 8th, 2022

John Day River: Steelhead fishing will close in the John Day River this fall due to low projected returns of wild steelhead
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Gerber Reservoir: The reservoir is very low at 1 percent full
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Sprague River: Flows are low at 97 cfs
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Wood River: Fishing for brown trout and redband trout should be good this week
Chetco River: The bag limit reduction is in place to reduce harvest on older age wild Chinook
Coos River: Salmon fishing slowed down over the past week
Fish Lake : Reservoir draw down should be slowing
Rogue River- Lower: Fall Chinook fishing has been good in the estuary
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