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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.
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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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