Idaho Fish Report
In June, stoneflies start to emerge providing some exciting dry fly fishing
by OR Department of Fish & Wildlife Staff
6-12-2024
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Fishing the Wallowa River for trout and whitefish can be good throughout the summer months as flows moderate. Trout and whitefish can be caught on a variety of baits, lures, and flies. Casting flies like wooly buggers and nymphs to pockets of slower moving water near shore can be good ways to catch trout and whitefish on the Wallowa River. In June, stoneflies start to emerge providing some exciting dry fly fishing.
Unfortunately, not enough spring Chinook are returning upriver to allow fishing for Chinook salmon on the Wallowa River this year. Unless a late pulse of fish start coming up the Columbia River, there will not be any salmon fishing allowed on the Wallowa River this year.
Steelhead fishing closed on April 30 and will reopen on Sept.r 1, 2024.