I live in Portland, but mostly fish for Steelhead locally. There are several steelhead streams in SW Washington as well with both summer and winter runs. There are sea run cutthroat in the Oregon and Washington coastal rivers that can be fished seasonally late spring through fall when they are open. They also have salmon and steelhead runs. Oregon has a a couple streams with hatchery and wild trout in the Salem/Eugene area, the Santiams and the McKenzie. The best wild trout fishing is East of the cascades in both states. The Yakima in Washington and the Deschutes, Crooked, Metolious and Fall Rivers in Oregon and most if not all are open all year. The Deschutes is the closest to Portland, a two hour drive. Both states have some very good Stillwater fishing east of the cascades and some decent but not as good on the west side. Good technical presentation, match the hatch fishing, is a good 7 hours east of Portland in my opinion and that why I take a long road trip in Idaho and Montana every year. I fish mostly summer steelhead and Stillwater trout in Oregon, and a little time on the Oregon rivers I mentioned.
Many of my local fly fishing brethren also fish the Columbia river in boats with conventional gear for spring, summer, and fall salmon. They are some of the best eating salmon to be found an we are not ashamed to pursue them with bait and lures and some also fly fish for them in the tributaries but their meat is usually not has prime as an ocean or Columbia fish. I've been invited to the coast to go crabbing and salmon fishing on the lower Columbia with a friend next month and will never pass up any such invitation. Besides the weather may be 30 degrees cooler if there is a heat wave in the valley. I was planning to spend time at my Deschutes cabin this week but temps will be in the 100s there...
