[judyfish99]

Hope everyone enjoyed their holidays.

Your questions about the goals and operations of the Clackamas River Hatchery can be answered at our upcoming meeting of the McLoughlin Chapter Steelheaders.

The hatchery recently made changes to improve fish runs in the future. Find out what these changes mean for you.

Get inside information on run timing, number of fish released and expected returns. Also where fish are released and might hold in the river waiting to be caught.

A speaker from the Clackamas Hatchery will be on hand to answer your questions.

Meeting Time: 7:00
Meeting Place: Round Table Pizza, 16550 SE McLoughlin Blvd, Milwaukie

We will have our normal raffle and reintroducing the white tickets to win bonus prizes at the end of the year.

Hope to see everyone there!

 

[tieiton]

Thanks for the info!

 

[judyfish99]

Hope everyone has been getting out on the rivers and having fun.
Just a reminder our next meeting is Tuesday, February 13th at 7:00. We are at Round Table Pizza, 16550 SE McLoughlin Blvd, Milwaukie, OR.
This month our speaker is David William who will talk to us about ice fishing. He has many years of experience he will share with us. He will teach us about a new fishery for many of us and share wisdom we can apply to our own fishing.
Hope to see you there!

 

[Hanapaa Fish on!]

Little late to the thread, missed the meeting. What changes were proposed for the Clackamas hatchery?

 

[judyfish99]

Little late to the thread, missed the meeting. What changes were proposed for the Clackamas hatchery?

Come to the meetings and someone can answer your question. Our next meeting is tomorrow, March 12th, The speaker will discuss the plunking fishery. The meeting is at Round Table Pizza (yes, pizza and beer!) 16550 SE McLoughlin Blvd, Milwaukie, OR. at 7:00pm. See you there!

 

[judyfish99]

The McLoughlin Chapter's next information packed meeting is coming up.

Our seminar is from Rob Bitney. He will give us insights on catching salmon and steelhead from the beach with spinners. A very popular and easily assessable fishery during certain times of the year.

Our chapter will have another outing in August using the techniques Rob will be discussing. More details will follow at our meetings and emails.

When: Tuesday, April 9th at 7:00 pm
Where: Round Table Pizza, 16550 SE McLoughlin Blvd, Milwaukie, OR

We hope to see you this Tuesday!

 

[Heffe]

TV Chapter meeting this Thursday. Bait-N-Wait Fishing Charters (Bernie Hoene) will be talking Kokanee fishing. Should be a good talk. 7:00 PM at the American Legion hall 2nd Thursday of the month (Thursday the 9th this month) at the American Legion Hall in Aloha. Alexander avenue. 20325 SW Alexander St · 20325 SW Alexander St, Beaverton, OR 97006, USA
Hope to see you there.

 

[judyfish99]

Our McLaughlin NW Steelheader's meeting will be Tuesday, May 14th at 7:00 pm. We will meet at Round Table Pizza 16550 SE McLoughlin Blvd, Milwaukie, OR 97267.

Two Big Items on the Agenda:
Our speaker is Stephen "Spicy" Gettel, a licensed guide. He will mainly talk about springer fishing around Oregon City and on the Willamette. Spicy also guides for ocean chinook and coho; bottom fishing; near shore halibut and sturgeon. He will be happy to share his knowledge on all these fisheries and how to fish with him. Public is welcomed.

We also have sign ups and set a date for the club's Pot Luck picnic in June. Our Pot Luck is our final event until our club fishing trip in August. It is always a lot of fun!

 

[judyfish99]

Steelheaders are on summer break until September. Will post meeting place and time in September. Have a great summer!

 

[judyfish99]

Back from summer break!
When: Tuesday, September 10th at 7:00 pm
Where: Round Table Pizza, 16550 SE McLoughlin Blvd, Milwaukie, OR

 

[11pcinoregon]

Will Work For Fish

Will Work For Fish
Joe Domenico -- President
Association of Northwest Steelheaders

Ifishers! It has never been a better time to be a Northwest Steelheader! After celebrating our 50th anniversary last year, we dedicated ourselves to ensuring the organization remains successful for the next 50 years by focusing our fish advocacy campaigns, increasing and diversifying our fundraising efforts, expanding our youth education programs, increasing our membership benefits, expanding our fun fishing events, and maximizing board, staff and volunteer participation.

Steelheaders are anglers who are dedicated to improving sport fishing opportunities! We love to fish and want to give back to and help support the resource that gives us so much enjoyment. In our 50-year history, the Association of Northwest Steelheaders have had many accomplishments which have significantly improved sport fishing; including banning high seas drift nets to end the practice of ocean strip mining off Pacific Coast shores, obtaining fish protection language in the Northwest Power Act, passage of stream-side riparian buffer zone rules, removing Steelhead from commercial fisheries, protecting the public right to access waterways, passing in-stream water rights law to provide minimum stream flows, and educating thousands of Oregon children annually -- on the beauty, wonder and importance of salmon and their habitats.

Volunteerism is one of the Steelheaders greatest strengths -- with members contributing tens of thousands of volunteer hours annually in education, habitat restoration, propagation and monitoring. We work closely with local, state and federal government. We recognize that government can and often does have other agendas, and that natural resources agencies do make mistakes; however, we know that working with government is a much more effective means of achieving positive results than always working against it. There are times we have no choice but to go to court against our government to protect fish, but we also work in close cooperation with natural resource agencies whenever possible.

Steelheaders current campaigns and projects include SAFE for Salmon legislation to move commercial gillnets off the mainstem Columbia River to Select Area Fisheries Enhancement areas; expanding the Fish Eggs to Fry program to schools throughout Oregon; advocating for a balanced, sustainable approach to Oregon state forest management and permanent conservation areas on state forests; protecting the budgets of state and federal natural resources agencies; creating an Oregon-wide stream nutrient enhancement program; protecting the incredible salmon runs of Bristol Bay, AK; improving public access to waterways; and protecting water flows in the Upper Deschutes River, among others.

We have created this thread on Ifish to keep the public informed of our efforts to improve sportfishing in Oregon and Washington, to invite you to our many fun and educational fishing events held throughout the year, and to encourage a constructive dialogue with our membership.

For more information on all things Steelheaders, check out our website at www.nwsteelheaders.org, our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/NorthwestSteelheaders, and check back often to this thread.

Now. Please... fish on!


Posted by Association of Northwest Steelheaders Secretary, Benjamin Light

Except the South Santiam River after the drawdown of Green Peter the river should be complete garbage.

 

[judyfish99]

Except the South Santiam River after the drawdown of Green Peter the river should be complete garbage.

I am sorry, Joe wrote that in 2011. I only post meeting notices for the McLoughlin Chapter. Joe is no longer a current President of ANWS., but a retired one.

 

[judyfish99]

Sorry I have not posted here on behalf of the McLoughlin Chapter that is now the Clackamas Chapter of the NW Steelheaders. I have been in the hospital twice and a physical rehab hospital involving breaking my arm and legs having a circulation problem with open wounds. Still learning to walk again, old age is not fun, ambulance rides are not cheap and not covered by insurance or Medicare. My caretaker says that her client is "spicy" and not as "fluffy", lol. Am hoping to heal and back on my feet, no pun intended, and getting back to going to meetings and normal life, so, I will forward what info I receive from the Clackamas Steelheader Chapter:

I am excited to send this reminder that our next meeting after our summer hiatus is this week. See details below:

Presenter: We will be hosting Buddy Phibbs, ODFW Fish Biologist for Salmon-Trout Enhancement Program (STEP) for North Willamette Watershed District. He will be sharing updates on STEP, upcoming learn to fish events and the Fish Eggs to Fry schedule this fall.
When: Tuesday SEPTEMBER 9 at 7pm
Where: Round Table Pizza 16550 SE McLoughlin Blvd, Milwaukie, OR 97267

We'll be sharing out chapter updates, Association updates, hosting our raffle for fishing gear, and we will also have NW Steelheaders patch hats for sale, like this one:

Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

James Adkins
President
Clackamas River Chapter
Association of Northwest Steelheaders

 

[suzuka]

Does anyone know if Clarence Pautke, former Chief Biologist WA state Game Commission and developer of the steelhead hatchery program, is he connected Pautke Bait Company. I asked the company thru FB and the person responding didn't know. Did an internet search and internet doesn't know , thanks.