A new police-patrolled travel-management area will help keep about 680,000 acres of Southern Oregon industrial timberlands open to public access for hunting, fishing and other pursuits over the next five years.

Ken Klein wandered from his Central Point home to little Expo Pond with spinning rod in hand, hoping to fritter away a fall Tuesday by catching a few bass and bluegill.

About 102,000 Oregon boat owners can expect next week to receive renewal notices for their motor boat registrations, and they will be the first ones to pay the new $5 fee to combat invasive species.

TRAIL — Anglers were welcomed back to Lost Creek Lake Tuesday after almost a month away from Jackson County's largest waterbody because of the latest outbreak of toxic blue-green algae.

A Warren man was set to appear in a Lincoln County courtroom today for landing a 12-foot-long great white shark in August outside of Depoe Bay.

It can hard to find places to wet a line when you're an urban fisherman living in the shadow of skyscrapers, but the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has come to the rescue.

McKENZIE BRIDGE — The lady is a left-handed fly-fisher and much, much more.

GRANTS PASS — Derrick Stevenson has learned much about how to catch chinook salmon this past month during his quest to capture one of the Rogue River's grand denizens before the legally blind man completely loses his sight.

A smallmouth bass finning its way around an Umpqua River pool caught Shawna Henderson's eye, and she hoped this fish would usher her into the world of women on the fly.

GRANTS PASS — Derrick Stevenson has waited for years to feel that first bite of a Rogue River chinook salmon, experience that tug-of-war battle to the boat and then to see — really see — his first salmon.

Water releases from Lost Creek Lake will drop by 50 cubic feet per second daily into the Rogue River this week as state and federal water managers complete their annual September drop in supplemented river flow.

Every driftboater who catches a Rogue River fall chinook salmon while fishing with bait owes a tip of his fishing cap to Arnold Gosnell.

The Rogue River's two flies-only fishing seasons began this week amid one of the stronger returns of hatchery and wild summer steelhead here in five years.

ASHLAND — Amid the moonless darkness, Andrew Jensen plied the murky waters of Emigrant Lake last Thursday for the big blue beast that had consumed his life and his fishing gear for much of August.

Diamond Lake will continue to be stocked with up to 400,000 fingerling trout in late spring or early summer under a new plan for long-term management of the lake in its post-tui chub era.

The Rogue River's spring chinook salmon run, which ended Aug. 15, will go on record as the best since 2005 — but it was still far below the running average. Even so, the numbers appear strong enough to put wild spring chinook back in anglers' coolers next year, biologists say.

After 15 years behind the Costco photo counter in Medford creating snapshots of Rogue Valley fishing adventures, Laurie Stovall finally produced a Kodak moment of her own.

A Phoenix teenager is the latest to confirm that Lost Creek Lake is home to the state's only known — and illegal — population of spotted bass.

SHADY COVE — Lee Wedberg's little prince nymph fly dribbled along a Rogue River riffle in the middle of town, stopping abruptly next to a submerged ledge and signaling the start of another epic Rogue battle.

SHADY COVE — A city service club and local fishing guides plan to scour the banks of the Rogue River Saturday as part of the annual Upper Rogue River Cleanup.