Warming air and water temperatures have led state fish managers to cancel planned releases of hatchery-bred rainbow trout scheduled this month for Jackson County's Expo Pond and Lake Selmac in Josephine County.

Even as a 12-year-old bass-fishing prodigy, Jacob Wall knew all those practice casts on his family's Jacksonville driveway would one day turn into cash.

Southern Oregon's growing fleet of halibut anglers have side-stepped fishing under a quota this year under draft season frameworks expected to be adopted today.

A consortium of fly-fishing clubs in Southern Oregon has pooled resources to fly in a Canadian stillwater fly-fishing expert for a series of appearances and a fishing workshop at one of the Northwest's best fly-fishing lakes.

If 5-year-old Armeda Kirkpatrick ever pens her autobiography, she'll have to devote a chapter to April 27, 2013: the day she caught her first fish.

And then there were three.

ASHLAND — For more than 30 years, Bob Isaacs hasn't missed the opening day of the trout-fishing season at his favorite haunt — Hyatt Lake.

The Fisher's Ferry boat ramp — not the old Gold Ray Dam site — is the new lower boundary of the upper Rogue River, one of a handful of changes to area sport-fishing regulations this year.

BROOKINGS — Southern Oregon ocean anglers made up for a string of dismal fishing seasons with a break-out year in 2012, and they are in line for an encore performance this year — as long as the ocean cooperates.

ASHLAND — After a whirlwind offseason that saw Jackson County take over operation of Howard Prairie Resort for the first time in its 53-year history, county Parks Manager Steve Lambert hopes no one will even notice the different faces behind the cash register.

Even though Diamond Lake is now a year-round fishing destination, its faithful anglers will have to spend the fourth Saturday in April somewhere else.

The Rainbow $5,000 trout-fishing tournament at Diamond Lake is celebrating its 16th birthday with a coming-out party that will offer its greatest prizes ever.

The following is a breakdown of the rainbow trout-stocking schedule for water bodies in the upper Rogue River basin this spring and summer.

Applegate Reservoir - Applegate Reservoir offers good fishing for largemouth bass, smallmouth bass and rainbow trout. Spring chinook salmon are also stocked in the reservoir to supplement the trout fishery and count as part of the trout bag limit. Anglers also may encounter adult steelhead this spring. Surplus winter steelhead from Cole Rivers Hatchery will be released above Applegate Dam beginning in late April, pending availability.

Spring has sprung this week for Southern Oregon trout anglers who will get a fresh start at fresh rainbows at several local lakes during the spring-break vacation.

SHADY COVE — For the first six days of March, Mark Randolph pulled himself out of his Shady Cove bed and trudged up to Cole Rivers Hatchery intent upon ushering in this year's spring chinook salmon season in the upper Rogue River.

BROOKINGS — For the roughly 44,000 ocean anglers fishing out of Oregon's 10 most-northerly ports, trolling a cut-plug herring off a downrigger for chinook salmon last year was called "fishing."

While predictions for a near-record chinook salmon run last year never materialized, ocean biologists are forecasting strong returns to key chinook rivers in Southern Oregon and Northern California and anticipate good ocean-fishing seasons this year.

When Portland fly-fisher Dave Hughes heads to Eastern Oregon's Chewaucan River for a day of trout fishing, his arsenal is noticeable as much for what's in it as for what's not.

Oregonians can expect a near replica in 2013 of last year's ocean fishing season for Pacific halibut after area fish managers skirted what was expected to be a sizeable cutback in this year's catch.