192 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 
FISHING FINE IN LINN COUNTY 
By WARDEN S. B. Tycer, Brownsville, Oregon 
FEW remarks from this territory may be of interest to the read- 
A ers of The Oregon Sportsman, At this writing the trout are just 
beginning to raise to a fly or spinner in the Calapooia River. 
For the benefit of the sportsmen, there is a good auto road for 
thirty-five miles above Brownsville, and good camping grounds are 
to be found almost anywhere along the river. From now on I 
believe that the fishing will be fine in all the streams of Linn 
County. 
On the South Santiam River 
the conditions are similar to 
those on the Calapooia. The 
roads are fine from Brownsville 
to Sweet Home and on to Cas- 
cadia; also a daily auto stage 
runs from Lebanon to Cascadia. 
one of the most beautiful and 
most pleasant summer resorts in 
Oregon. The South Santiam 
abounds in nice gamping 
grounds. In the South San- 
tiam the Rainbow, Cuthroat and 
Brook trout are the principal 
fish caught, while the ’ Cala- 
pooia furnishes the Rainbow, 
Cut-throat and Brown trout. 
Since the Calapooia has been 
stocked by the State Fish and 
Game Commission it furnishes 
some excellent fishing. 
Charles Standish, of Browns- 
ville, has made the best catch in 
the Calapooia River so far this 
year. Mr. Standish went by auto 
eighteen miles above Brownsville on June 26, returning the same day 
with thirty of the finest fish that have been seen this season. ‘They 
measured eight to eighteen and one-half inches in length. 
I am sending The Sportsman a picture of the catch I made 
Sunday, June 24, while patroling the Calapooia River twenty miles 
above Brownsville. These fish were from seven to sixteen inehes 
in length. 
With regard to upland bird hunting in this county, the crop of 
young birds appears to be above the normal. Especially with the 
Chinese pheasants. This section had more birds last season than any 
other in the Willamette Valley, and as there was a good supply of 
old birds left over the crop of young birds this year is above the 
average. 
With regard to deer hunting in the mountains of Eastern Linn, 
will say that it begins to look more encouraging. Quite a number of 
deer have been seen feeding in the grain fields of the upper Cala- 
pooia Valley. As many as six in a band have been seen at one time 
feeding in the pastures along the foothills between Brownsville and 
Coburg. This looks very much as though the ‘‘hound dogs’’ were 
going out of commission. 

