Diamond Lake heads into the weekend in fishing limbo as the lake starts to transition from ice to open water.

Tuesday is the start of the spring Pacific halibut season, and deep-sea anglers will get more days on the water in 2012 thanks to a nearly 9 percent increase in the halibut quota for Oregon.

Trout anglers will find open water at Hyatt and Howard Prairie lakes and a sea of ice and snow atop Diamond Lake for Saturday's opening of the trout-fishing season.

Gazing out of his office window at Cole Rivers Hatchery on April 9, interim manager Dave Pease saw a small cluster of anglers walking off the dike and through the hatchery grounds like they often do when they're done fishing the Rogue River's famed Hatchery Hole.

"Troll slowly and troll deep." That'll be the mantra for Southern Oregon's ocean chinook anglers from May into September, when the recreational ocean fleet gets to enjoy the most liberal chinook season seen in decades.

While Howard Prairie and Hyatt lakes get the lion's share of Jackson County's attention for the opening day of trout season, they're not the only spots luring anglers on the fourth Saturday in April.

ASHLAND — This year's fishing season marks a turning point for Hyatt Lake and the anglers who have enjoyed this big-trout factory at the top of the Dead Indian Plateau.

Anglers are coming off a very good year of fishing at Howard Prairie Lake, and another good season is expected at this trout-fishing mecca atop the Dead Indian Plateau.

If you are canning fish, it likely means you've had a pretty successful day or two on the water.

With Diamond Lake trapped beneath a heavy layer of ice and snow, anglers should expect to add an ice auger to their equipment list for what could be the last trout opener at the lake.

It's time to get out your calendar and start planning if you hope to take part in the flotilla of fishers targeting Pacific halibut during the popular and productive all-depth openers.

They're called put-and-take fisheries for a fairly obvious reason: State hatchery workers put catchable trout in lakes, ponds and streams specifically so anglers can catch them and take them home.

Southern Oregon's ocean anglers will get more than a full summer of chinook salmon fishing after The Pacific Fishery Management Council set the most liberal salmon season seen off the south coast in three decades.

For a two-week stretch last month, fly-fishing guide Josh White and his clients couldn't get out of the way of winter steelhead on the Applegate River, even if they wanted to.

A new set of ocean-fishing regulations go into effect Sunday as part of an attempt to stave off mid-season reductions or closures to Oregon's recreational fleets this year.

Southern Oregon's ocean anglers can expect a full summer chinook salmon-fishing season under proposals that call for saltwater salmon fishing from Memorial Day through Labor Day.

More than 1.6 million fall chinook salmon are in the ocean and finning their way toward Northern California's Klamath River, and that's the best news Southern Oregon offshore anglers could hear this year.

Upper Rogue River anglers could catch some peculiar-looking steelhead this winter.

Southern Oregon anglers have a new winter fishing opportunity at an old waterbody.

The ocean Dungeness crab fishery will remain closed from the Gold Beach area down into Northern California until Jan. 15 to give crabs along this stretch of the coast more time to fill out with meat following their fall molting.