• 8 inch minimum length.

•Only 1 trout over 20 inches in length may be taken per day. •Rainbow trout over 16 inches are considered steelhead in streams.

• Salmon under 15 inches are considered trout, except coho salmon, which are always considered salmon regardless of size.

•No limit on size or number of brook or brown trout in streams unless noted under Exceptions

Streams: (including tidewaters and bays): Open May 22 – Oct 31

•Pink salmon, sockeye salmon and hatchery coho salmon may be retained as part of the adult and jack salmon daily bag limit in all waters that are currently open to angling for Chinook salmon or steelhead, except as specified in Exceptions.

•Hatchery releases of coho salmon occur in the Trask River, North Fork Nehalem River, Big Creek, Klaskanine River and Youngs Bay.

•Closed angling for chum salmon (including jacks) unless noted under Exceptions.

• See Exceptions in NW Zone to determine where harvest of any Chinook salmon is allowed. Harvest of wild steelhead and wild coho salmon is prohibited in the NW Zone except as allowed under Exceptions for Big Elk Creek, Salmon River, Siltcoos Lake and Tahkenitch Lake. There is no annual limit on hatchery salmon or hatchery steelhead as long as the appropriate number of Hatchery Harvest Tags have been purchased to record the catch.

•Angling restricted to artificial flies and lures in stream

•All sturgeon must be immediately released unharmed into the water.

• Sturgeon over 54 inches in fork length cannot be removed totally or in part from the water.

•Only one single-point barbless hook may be used for sturgeon.

•Angling restricted to artificial flies and lures in streams above tidewater May 22 – Aug 31. See Exceptions where use of bait is allowed.

•Note: Tidewater portions of Columbia River tributaries are managed per Columbia River regulations. Columbia River sturgeon fisheries downstream of Bonneville Dam are restricted to catch-and-release angling only.