THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 



RIVERS AND STREAMS OF OREGON 



With Some Descriptions of the Country, Fish and Fishing— Part 3 



BY 

 JOHN GILL 



LOWER COLUMBIA STREAMS 



Twenty miles west of Portland is the well-known (and well- 

 fished) Scappoose, with its north and south forks. One can get 

 enough of Scappoose in a day, leaving town on the 8 A. M. train 

 and returning at 10 P. M. If one wants the evening and morn- 

 ing fishing, as on several streams west, an afternoon train will 

 take one to villages where good accommodations can be had, and 

 thus Milton, Tide Creek and Goble Creek can be fished. These 

 streams are not by any means troutless, but one earns all he gets 

 in any of them. At times, too, there is really good fishing. I 

 saw the best basket of trout from Scappoose in the spring of 

 1911 that I ever saw taken there, and I have caught a thousand 

 trout from the north fork, but many years ago. 



Beaver, half way from Portland to the sea, is next, and little 

 visited. Its lower course is through the great marsh, and yields 

 no trout except sea trout by bait fishing. One should take a team 

 at Quincy and drive (or be driven) five miles or more up from 

 the railroad and then Beaver is worth the trouble. It is a long 

 stream, and even back of Rainier, many miles east of Quincy, is 

 good fishing. One can get a pretty good day's fishing by arrang- 

 ing beforehand for a team to receive one at Quincy from the 

 morning train from Portland, drive at once up the river and have 

 the same team take one back to the station at 8 P. M. to return 

 to town that night. The same may be done at Clatskanie, but as 

 the lower Clatskanie is over-fished, it is usually better to go 

 there on an evening train, staying at a comfortable hotel and 

 making an early start for ten miles up river. The Clatskanie is 

 a fine, big stream and a fair fishing river. In Fall and Winter 

 its lower waters are good fishing for the Winter trout, and one 



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