Salmon, steelhead fishing with Oregon's Nestucca River Outfitters, The Original Nestucca Valley Sporting Goods. Providing Oregon fishing licenses, rod and reel repair, bait and tackle with guided fishing trips on drift boats, jet boats with our fishing gu

Welcome to Nestucca River Outfitters (NRO), The Original Nestucca Valley Sporting Goods!

We are open from 5:30 A.M. until 5 P.M. ( winter 6:00AM to 5:00 PM ) seven days a week and we are located 20 minutes South of Tillamook at the junction of Hwy.101 and Hwy. 22 in the town of Hebo, Oregon. Our location is central to all of the local bays and coastal rivers in Tillamook County and the surrounding area which includes Tillamook Bay, Nestucca bay, Nestucca River, Little Nestucca River , Trask, Kilchis, Siletz, Wilson, Miami and Tillamook rivers where some of Oregon's finest Chinook (King) salmon and steelhead fishing takes place. We offer guided drift boat fishing trips utilizing fly fishing or bait and tackle techniques on all our local rivers daily with the top guides in the area. We are able to accommodate large groups of 8 or more anglers with advance notice. We also offer guided half day Crabbing or sight seeing trips. There are a number of lakes in the area that are stocked with trout year round that make for fun fishing for kids and adults alike.

Fishing Report

Report game violators.! Phone numbers for some of the local authorities.
Tillamook County Sheriffs non emergency. 503 842 2561
State Police: Officer Casey Thomas,   503 812 9877
State Police: Officer Todd Hoodenhpyl, 503 801 5365



        07/02/09 Three Rivers is closed. Three Rivers from the mouth up to the hatchery is closed to all fishing until October 1st. What a Springer season we had on Three Rivers this year. There were more fish than anyone has seen in quite a few years. The hatchery received all the fish they needed and most fishermen came away with Salmon, some more than they needed, some legally and some illegally. There were issues this year as in the past with illegal tactics as well as folks without licenses, illegal bag limits and fishing illegal means. Low clear water added to the problem because most all the fish could be seen and sight fished. In spite of all this many legal fishermen caught salmon as well. Some of you may remember but it wasn't that many years ago when all we had on Three Rivers was a seven day season. ODFW and the Cedar Creek Hatchery have done a tremendous job of bringing back this fishery. I would have liked to have seen the season extended for two more weeks because there are still lots of Salmon in the river and still many more bright fish coming in. The powers that be decided against the extension and that's that. I suspect the many problems that were experienced by law enforcement played a big factor in the no extension. In some ways , many of the illegal fishermen cost us the extension. That might be something you all might want to consider next year. Reporting violators will help. Bringing pressure on some of the thugs out here could bring the reward of more fishing opportunities for everyone. I know it's difficult because some of these folks you wouldn't want as enemies, however if we work together, get them out of here, no one has to worry.
     The big Nestucca will now be the focus for the next month or so. There are still Springer's coming in ,but because of no spring rains, the low clear water has made fishing for Salmon difficult. It's almost impassible by boat except in the lower runs. There are reports of summer Steelhead all the way up to Blaine. Soon they will be through out the upper river. The bank access in the upper river is much better than down low. A few days ago Robert Bradley from ODFW ask my thoughts on how they might promote this fishery to get more fishermen involved with Summer Steelhead on the Nestucca. Mr. Bradley's concern is that ODFW spends quite a bit of money planting 70 thousand Summer Steelhead Smoltz and not that many fishermen are participating. If this fishery remains under utilized, ODFW may suspend the program in favor of spending the money where folks would make better use of it. One of the problems I see is river access. With the low water, the use of drift boats is next to impossible, especially above Farmer Creek. Adding to that is the predominance of private property in the lower river, and access to fishing is limited. One way to beat that is a pontoon boat. there were many days last July and August that I had the river all to myself. A pontoon boat is a great inexpensive way to get to much of the fishable water. Last year I floated several times and picked up Summers on almost every trip. Adding to that ,this year the river is open to Cut Throat Trout and you have the makings of a fun day. You may retain two Cutties with only one being 20 inches or more. The only suggestion I would have made to the opening of trout on our river would have been a slot limit. As it stands the minimum length allowed is 8 inches. I would have liked the minimum to be 10 inches so there would be less confusing them with Steelhead Smoltz.

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