A New Interactive Website to Help You Find Fishable Waters

--by Stacy Carpenter

Have you been looking for a good fishing place to take your kids?  How about a peaceful fly-fishing location?  Interested in knowing what species of sport fish are in that stream?  Oregon Fish Finder has the information you need!

Over the years, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW), as well as many other sources, have provided documents to help guide you to a fishing area in your part of the state.  However, with information being in different forms and different places, it has been difficult to know what type of experience to expect without having a library of books to study.  This is where Oregon Fish Finder can help.  ODFW’s Natural Resources Information Management Program (NRIMP), with the help of BoatEscape.com, is bringing you a list of over 450 streams, lakes, and bays to fish in Oregon on a website called Oregon Fish Finder.

Oregon Fish Finder is an interactive website with an extensive database that will allow you to search for fishing places by location, species of fish, or by making a custom query.  The database will use your search criteria to display the desired water body, a list of fish in that water, the probability of catching a fish of the desired species, directions on how to get to the specified location, and other valuable information that has been gathered for that water body and/or fish species throughout the state of Oregon.  The information comes from ODFW information sources, books, articles, and other web pages, and District Biologists from each of the nine watershed districts in the state of Oregon will be verifying the data before it is officially released. 

Currently, the Oregon Fish Finder site is online only as a draft version, as data is still being gathered and verified by our biologists.  Accurate data will be provided later this year.  Please check back on this website for updated information.