THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 179 

BEAUTIFUL FALLS CREEK 
By WARDEN W. G. EMERY, Newport, Oregon 
HERE is no stream in Lincoln County .that can compare with 
ch Falls Creek for beauty, and few equal it as a most excellent 
trout stream. It rises at the base of Grass Mountain, and wind- 
ing through deep canyons and tumbling over more than a score of 
rocky falls, it empties into the Alsea River, about eighteen miles 
above Tidewater and nine miles below Alsea. The falls along the 
ereek are from four to ten feet in height, and between them are 
swift rapids and deep pools that promise a rich harvest to any angler 
who takes the time and trouble to visit this out-of-the-way section. 
It can be most easily reached by auto from Philomath to Alsea, 
a distance of about twenty-five miles, thence over Digger Mountain 
to Trenholm’s, nine miles. Accommodations may be secured along the 
creek from the hospitable ranchers living there, who, with one or two 
exceptions, require no request for fishing on their premises. 
Last month, while visiting Falls Creek in the discharge of my 
duties, I was invited to join a fishing party for a day’s sport on its 
upper waters. The party of six left Mr. Brannon’s place about 8 
A. M. and fished till noon, when we met at an abandoned cabin near 
the mouth of a small stream and lunched on fried trout, coffee and 
other picnic staples. We brought into camp that noon over fifty 
trout, and forty-nine had disappeared when Mrs. Brannon insisted 
that I had to finish the last one. 
That afternoon we fished down stream, catching some fifty more, 
while Mr. and Mrs. Sherer took snapshots along the way. Picture 
No. 1 is at one of the upper falls, about six feet high, and Mr. Bran- 
non, at the extreme left, is seen just landing a fourteen and a half- 
in height, where we were interested spectators while salmon every 
few minutes were making frantic efforts to ascend. 
The total catch for the day was over 100 trout, the largest taken 
inch eutthroat, Photo No, 2 was a time exposure at a fall about three 
