Welcome to our guide to floating and fishing the upper Rogue River. Check out a series of videos by Mail Tribune outdoors writer Mark Freeman and photographer Jamie Lusch, read archived stories about the river and find resources for information on using the river and enjoying its wildlife. Use the map below to watch videos about the river as well as to find the best fishing holes, swimming sites and public-access points along Jackson County’s most popular stretch of water.
Here's an introduction to our video project and the river. Then, explore the rest of the river.
These videos also can be found on the interactive map above.
Oregon salmon advocates believe they are inching toward developing a federally approved plan in which over-populations of fish-eating cormorants...
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...
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...
WHITE CITY — Two small ponds infested with Chinese mystery snails and non-native aquarium plants are being drained in the latest attempt to...
GALICE — Low and cold flows throughout February put an icy grip on winter steelhead fishing in the Rogue River.
During a trip down the Lower Rogue River Canyon in fall 2010, fishing guide Dan Stumpff noticed the back of his right hand swelling, then festering...
A new study that says effluent from Medford's wastewater treatment plant illegally harms insect life and promotes unwanted algae growth in the Rogue...
A new study contends that treated effluent released into the Rogue River from Medford's wastewater treatment plant illegally harms insect life and...
TRAIL — A tote containing 800 rotten, smelly spring chinook salmon carcasses is pushed by forklift — very daintily — into fish...
ASHLAND — With one turn of a lever Thursday, Cole Rivers Hatchery technician Colby Gonzalez turned 351 summer steelhead into rainbow trout and...
The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission on Friday adopted a fall chinook management plan for the Rogue River that seeks to ensure that the basin's...
State parks officials grappling with the Rogue River's ever-eroding banks at TouVelle State Park are looking at short-term and long-term solutions to...