THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 



lower river threw fences down and left gates open, and stock 

 strayed from field to field, doing great damage. All that water 

 is now posted against fishermen, a single Portland angler, Mr. H. 

 Eldridge, being welcome to fish there as he has done for many 

 years; and this favor is the result of consideration and regard 

 for the rights of others on his part.) 



A great tract of forest on the mountains bordering this 

 river is being cut off by a company which also forbids any fish- 

 ing on its lands. This prohibition is also due to the recklessness 

 of men who light fires promiscuously and leave them without 

 taking the trouble to extinguish them, thus endangering enormous 

 interests. 



So here is a fine stream which we have lost through the 

 criminal, wanton disregard of the rights of others! Such results 

 are sure to follow in similar cases elsewhere ; and the man who so 

 violates his privilege of fishing our streams is not only an enemy 

 and nuisance to the farmer and lumberman, but to all the guild of 

 honest fishermen. 



STREAMS NEAR ASTORIA 



Clatsop is exceptionally blessed with fine trout streams. 

 Plympton Creek and Tillasqua, described above, are within that 

 county. The Tillasqua, whose lower course has been covered 

 by previous notes, rises in a group of very high and noble moun- 

 tains twenty miles southeast of Astoria, and we followed its 

 waters from the mouth of the "canyon" to Knappa, where it 

 falls into the Columbia. It must be that there is fishing in the 

 long canyon which runs for several miles through the mountains, 

 but I have not gone far in the gorge, always finding more inviting 

 fishing in the waters below it. There is a sense of imprisonment 

 and peril in fishing a deep gorge where the steep walls of rock 

 rise forbiddingly, and often one unacquainted with such a gorge 

 is in more than imaginary risk. The little beach of gravel you 

 have been following may terminate at the food of a rampart of 



Pagre eigfht 



