Spring Chinook Fishing Seasons Announced

The popular spring chinook fisheries on the Deschutes and Hood rivers will open this spring.  Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife managers are predicting over 4,000 adult hatchery fish will return to the Deschutes, which is well above management goals to obtain hatchery broodstock and other needs.  The Deschutes will open for adipose fin-clipped chinook from May 1 through July 31 from the mouth of the Deschutes at the I-84 bridge upstream to Sherars Falls.  Managers are predicting far fewer adult fish returning to the Hood River, about 970 hatchery fish.  The Hood will be open for adipose fin-clipped chinook from April 15 through June 30 from the mouth to mainstem confluence with the East Fork, and the West Fork from the confluence with the mainstem upstream to the angling deadline 200 feet downstream of Punchbowl Falls.

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