We built the tool we wanted for ourselves, and now it's ready to share with you. Live on our site under the River Reports menu.
This is a great way to learn the run timings for any tracked river. If you are new to fishing or if you want to explore some new rivers, this is an excellent resource to guide you.
It shows statically what gets caught and where for every water tracked by Oregon and Washington.
Easy access to nearly 20 years of historical catch records, plus live gauges, weather, wind, tides, and more.
If this is useful to you, tell someone who fishes.
It's free with nothing to install.
No app, no account, no signup, no paywall, no popups. It works the same on your computer or on your phone at the ramp. There are many customizable settings to make it your own. All pages are easy to bookmark with simple links.
There are 3 main pages with over 400 pages of location specific content.
The Catch Statistics page answers where fish are being caught this month, and when a run peaks. Pick a month and see the ten best waters stacked by species. Pick a species and watch its run arrive, peak and taper across twelve months.
The River Tree page lists all tracked waters and their path to the Pacific Ocean. You can see this in a tree structure and on an interactive map with the water locations marked. From here, you can easily navigate to the location specific pages.
The Favorite Locations page is basically your own dashboard. You can favorite a water location anywhere on the site and it lands here as a tile showing that location's live gauge chart and a summary of the catch records over the year. One screen with every location you care about.
The location specific pages show details you would want to know when fishing in that location. Live gauge level and flow with two weeks of history, current conditions with weather alerts, hourly and daily forecasts, daylight hours, wind, tides, sun and moon, a map of the water, that location's catch history. The weather visuals show 3 days of history so you can get a better idea of what the conditions were leading into the current day you are fishing.
Reading the catch numbers
- It is real data, but it is not a complete fish count. It counts fish kept, not caught. Everything released is invisible to these charts.
- Oregon tracks 3 species on a calendar year. Washington tracks 9 species on an April-to-March year.
- It is good for run timing and a will give you a general idea of when the water location should fish well.
Where data comes from
Catch records from ODFW and WDFW. River levels, weather and tides from NOAA and the National Weather Service. Sun and moon times from the US Naval Observatory. River geometry is mostly traced from OpenStreetMap. We are not affiliated with any of the above organizations.