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Willamette River is a public river in Marion County, Linn County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County and Lane County, Oregon, managed by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. You can fish it on an Oregon angling licence — plus a Combined Angling Tag to keep salmon, steelhead or sturgeon. Oregon’s navigable rivers carry a public right to the bed and banks below the ordinary high-water line; on smaller non-navigable streams over private land, access is by permission or from public land. Angling for game fish on rivers and streams is closed from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise, and barbless hooks are required in the Columbia and many salmon and steelhead rivers. Public access confirmed via marquee water.
A warm Oregon mainstem river — the John Day, lower Umpqua, mainstem Willamette, Snake in Hells Canyon: smallmouth bass by the hundred, channel catfish, summer steelhead running through, and white sturgeon on the big rivers.
It runs roughly 103 miles through the Willamette Zone region. Anglers here mostly fish for channel catfish, largemouth bass, northern pikeminnow, smallmouth bass; spring chinook salmon, summer steelhead, walleye, white sturgeon are also on record. Live flow and gauge height come from the Tualatin River At West Linn, Or USGS station shown below. The nearest other mapped waters on PiscaMaps are Walter Wirth Lake and Stone Quarry Lake.
Species hand-compiled from ODFW zone regulations, the ODFW trout-stocking schedule and PiscaMaps water-type profiles.
Night fishing: On Oregon rivers and streams you may not angle for game fish from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise. Lakes, reservoirs and ponds are generally open around the clock unless posted (bass, panfish and catfish are commonly fished at night). Check the zone regulations for the specific water.
Boats: The reservoirs and larger lakes take trailered boats via a state-park, Forest Service or county ramp; the Cascade lakes are often car-top or electric-only and many rivers are classic drift-boat water. Every boat — including canoes, kayaks and drift boats 10 feet and over — needs an Aquatic Invasive Species Prevention Permit.
Bank & bivvy camping: About half of Oregon is federal land — dispersed camping is allowed on most BLM and Forest Service ground along these waters, plus developed Forest Service, BLM and state-park campgrounds on nearly every reservoir and Cascade lake.
Tackle: Trout bag limits are set by zone and water — commonly 2 per day in western Oregon, up to 5 in parts of the southeast, with bonus hatchery trout allowances. Wild steelhead and most wild salmon must be released; only fin-clipped hatchery fish may be kept. Barbless hooks are required in the Columbia and many salmon and steelhead rivers. Check the current Oregon Sport Fishing Regulations for the zone.
Boat ramps: 9 mapped — Boat ramp, Boat ramp, Boat ramp, Kayak Launch, Boat ramp, Canoe Launch and others nearby.
Camping: 5 sites mapped nearby — Armitage County Park Campground, Camp Harlow, Whispering Pines Horse Camp, Graham Corral Horse Campground, Campsite.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors.
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Live from USGS gauge 14207500 — Tualatin River At West Linn, Or. Full gauge data →
Anyone 12 or older needs an Oregon angling licence — the resident annual is about $44, the non-resident annual about $118, with a 1-day licence (~$23, which includes the harvest tag). To keep salmon, steelhead, sturgeon or halibut you also need a Combined Angling Tag (~$46 resident / ~$96 non-resident). Youth 12–17 pay a reduced fee and under-12 fish free. All boats, including non-motorized craft 10 feet and longer, need an Aquatic Invasive Species Prevention Permit. Buy from ODFW at myodfw.com. An Oregon angling licence covers this water (plus a Combined Angling Tag to keep salmon, steelhead or sturgeon).
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