Local fishing options are much improved. Longtime Umpqua River anglers are reporting the best shad fishing in decades and the river’s smallmouth bass fishing is also exceptionally good. Since Sunday, ...

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife For the second time in three years, the North Umpqua River and its tributaries will be closed to all fishing for several months. The Oregon Department of Fish ...

Spring Chinook fishing on the Umpqua River showed definite improvement entering last weekend. Bryan Gill of ‘The Umpqua Angler landed a 24 pounder and three other springers were caught the same day ...

Who will buy the Steamboat Inn, the fabled fly-fishing resort on southern Oregon’s Umpqua River that has only had three owners in six decades? Broker Michelle Kennedy of Crystal Investment Property ...

PORTLAND – Fly fishers will tell you that the North Umpqua River has some of the best fishing around. The water is clear and cool, the fish can be caught in every season, and the scenery is absolutely ...

On a cool fall day, I stood on a rock ledge overlooking the Big Bend Pool in Steamboat Creek, a major tributary of Oregon’s famed North Umpqua River. I was watching a male steelhead trout that I ...

Bill Blodgett’s clients on the North Umpqua River have looked a bit different than normal this August. Instead of welcoming families clad in shorts and sunglasses, the owner of North Umpqua Outfitters ...

In the summer of 1972, my wife, Hilde, and I worked at a North Umpqua River fishing lodge in Oregon that was owned by close friends. The lodge attracted guests from across the country to fly-fish for ...