The Oregon Bass & Panfish Club was founded in 1958 for the purpose of encouraging and stimulating interest in fishing for warmwater species--bass, crappie, walleye, yellow perch, catfish, and sunfish (bluegill, pumpkinseed, red-eared sunfish, etc.) and in observing and enforcing fish and wildlife laws. The Club has a close relationship with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and helps to restore and restock specific bodies of water under the direction of ODFW.

The Club is a family oriented fishing club, with a current membership of approximately 300. It meets monthly (usually the fourth Thursday of each month) and has Club activities (volunteer projects, picnics, and fish-ins) once a month from March to October. A multi-page bulletin is published and mailed to members each month, which features the meeting notice, fishing reports/stories (when available), calendar of Club events, and articles of interest relating to boating safety, fishing tips, and environmental and legislative issues.

The Club has an annual fishing contest for its Adult and Youth members. Because the Club promotes "catch and release" of fish, entries are submitted with length measurements and, for some species, photographs.

Since the early 1960s, the Oregon Bass & Panfish Club has been the official record keeper of the State Records for Warmwater Fish caught in Oregon.

Over the years, the Club has worked with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife on warmwater fish projects, such as St. Louis Ponds (near Woodburn, Oregon), Wahkeena Pond (near Benson Lake/Multnomah Falls), Webster Pond (on Sauvie Island), and providing crappie for transplanting to Haystack Reservoir. The Club also helps ODFW with its Passport to Fishing Clinic at Bonneville Fish Hatchery in June of each year and helps with the Becoming an Outdoors-Woman (BOW) parent/child event. Several of our Club members have become Angler Education Instructors through ODFW.

Membership is $20 annually (age 16 and older). Dual Membership is $25 annually (two people at same address).