The ramp has always been nearly completely boat free all the days I had gone, which was usually in the evenings after work, but even the time or two on the weekends hasn't been bad. And no idea if it scares the fish, though it has to given my lack of catching :lol:.
And I agree the Oregon regulations have some weird aspects for those coming from the more eastern states, myself included. The single rod regulation is what keeps me from fishing for catfish/carp more often as I just can't stand sitting still that long. The live bait makes sense given the problems with tui chub and goldfish, but at the same time it would be great to allow using fish caught from the body of water as bait, as I can only imagine there are some HUGE flatheads out there in Oregon just they aren't interested in dead fish. And of course chumming probably has the same reason that you aren't supposed to leave your fish carcasses in the water. Only with chumming you're introducing something that wasn't necessarily supposed to be in the water in the first place, while the fish carcass law makes no sense what so ever because that's where the fish, especially salmon, are supposed to end up.