This 147.5 mile "recreational" river in central Oregon flows through a number of canyons and valleys and provides exceptional anadromous steelhead and warm-water bass fishing. The John Day is the second longest free-flowing stream in the continental United States, and one of only two river systems in the entire Columbia River Basin managed solely for wild anadromous fish. The John Day watershed also supports one of the largest remaining populations of wild Chinook salmon and steelhead in the Columbia Basin.