THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 



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thin sections of large extent, falling a hundred feet or more 

 into the stream, and in places too where the water is most 

 tempting. Such a cliff on the south side of Eagle 

 Creek, about three miles up the river from Eagle Creek P. 0., 

 shed a ton of rock in a large slip that extended over an 

 area of forty feet square, on the last occasion the writer was 

 fishing there, fortunately on the other side of the river, twenty 

 yards away. It fell with a tremendous roar, just where a man 

 might have stood to fish the water at the foot of the cliff. 

 Beware of such cliffs, where you see fresh scars on the canyon 

 side, and piles of fine fragments of new-fallen rock at the foot 

 of the palisade. 



This caution applies to many other streams in the deep 

 canyons of the Cascades. Serious accidents have occurred also 

 where men unacquainted with the trails have attempted to 

 go down the cliffs without knowledge. There are places were 

 the descent can be made by sliding down in a sitting posture, 

 putting on brakes at every bush or stump, and then one may 

 follow the stream for a mile before he finds a similar gully by 

 which he may ascend. Don't try any place where there are no 

 signs of others having gone down, if you would avoid broken 

 bones. 



Estacada is a good point from which to reach the more 

 remote waters of the upper Clackamas, and Cazadero, at the 

 terminus of the electric railway, is the resort of many success- 

 ful anglers. At the mouth of the Clackamas, the rapids in the 

 Willamette have been found during the summer of 1913 equal 

 to the falls of the "Willamette for salmon fishing, and hundreds 

 of Chinook salmon were taken there by rods. The lower Clacka- 

 mas will probably repay the salmon fisher, in favorable condi- 

 tions, though we all throng to the Willamette now in season. 



SALMON FISHING AT OREGON CITY 



This sport has been unusually good during the spring of 

 1914. The first salmon of the spring run — the finest Chinooks— 

 Seem to seek the Willamette, and gather in great numbers in 



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