Oregon Code § ORS 498.208

Use of electricity or foreign substances to take game fish prohibited; rules
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(1) Except as the State Fish and Wildlife Commission by rule may provide otherwise, no person shall:
(a) Use in any body of water any electric current that may attract, frighten, retard, stun, kill or obstruct the movement of any game fish.
(b) Place in any body of water any foreign substance such as blood or fish offal or any gas, chemical, drug or powder that may attract, frighten, retard, stun, kill or obstruct the movement of any game fish.
(c) Use in any body of water any explosive device for the purpose of taking game fish.
(2) No person shall possess any game fish that the person knows or has reason to know was taken in violation of subsection (1) of this section.

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