THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 



RIVERS AND STREAMS OF OREGON 



With Some Descriptions of the Country, Fish and Fishing— Part 2 



BY 

 JOHN GILL 



Tillamook, Trask and Wilson Rivers, 



About fifteen miles south of Nehalem one arrives by the P. R. 

 & N. at Garibaldi, on the north entrance of Tillamook Bay — a 

 pleasant place to stay and rather preferable to Tillamook City for 

 reaching the Miami, a small stream falling into the east side of 

 this bay. The situation of Garibaldi is very charming, the views 

 of the bay, ocean and mountains quite unsurpassed. Good ac- 

 commodations are found here or at Bay City, on the east shore of 

 the bay, which is an important town on the railroad. From Bay 

 City or Tillamook, Kilchis River is accessible. 



Tillamook, terminus of the line, is also the objective point 

 of two important roads from the Willamette, one of which, from 

 Forest Grove, follows the valley of Gales Creek. This is a very 

 pleasant stream and good fishing, and at Gales, ten miles west of 

 Forest Grove, are good quarters for a stay. Arriving at the 

 summit, where there is a good mountain tavern, one strikes the 

 waters of the famous Wilson River near its head, and the road to 

 Tillamook follows its increasing tide westward. This river and 

 the Trask are famous for many years as the greatest fishing 

 streams of northwestern Oregon. They are of about equal volume, 

 the Trask having a shorter but broader watershed. Both are 

 clear, rapid, powerful rivers — all that trout rivers par excellence 

 should be. They flow into Tillamook Bay at its southeast corner, 

 near Tillamook City, which is a good base for reaching their lower 

 waters, as well as the Tillamook River, which comes directly from 

 the south and enters the southern end of the bay. Tillamook has 

 not been so much fished as the two larger rivers and is not so 



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