Apologies for the long delay since my last report, technical difficulties have kept me from making any recent entries.  I am currently on location on the southern Oregon coast.  Consequently, my computer access is very limited.  Enough about that.  Fishing on the Lower Rogue has been spotty, with "hot bites" being reported every few days.  Plenty of fish in the 30lb range are in the mix as well as some forty plus brutes.  Perhaps the hottest action reported this past week down south here has been in the COOS BAY area.  Trolled herring and spinners have been the big producers.  The lower Coquille is also producing some fish, though no one is referring to it as "Red Hot."  On The Umpqua, trolling along the south jetty and near Half Moon Bay area is also producing some nice catches of Fall Chinook and even a few Coho have been reported.  Newly arriving fish have been caught as far upriver as Elkton, though most of the effort remains down in the estuary.  This certainly applies on most of the coastal systems.  The onset of our fall rains will however, begin to move the fall fish from the salt up into the free-flowing fresh water.In the southern Willamette Valley there are still plenty of late summer steelhead being caught on the McKenzie and Middle Fork Willamette.  A variety of tactics are indeed proving successful.  Flies remain one of the top producers as has been the case throughout the season.  Still, plugs, spinners, baits and jigs are all seeing action.  For folks chasing trout on the fly in the McKenzie, as temperatures cool and rains begin to fall, our native "Redside Trout" should get a lot more aggressive and have been known to slam the large October Caddis imitations and big orange stimulators.  Word also has it that up on the North Fork of the Umpqua there remain just a bunch of summer steelhead available especially in the Rock Creek area, a very popular spot for bank fishermen.