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Gettin' Jiggy Wid It
I have not fished it recently but I have in the past. Found smallies all over the place. On the west bank with the most tree cover I have seen plenty of larger bass feeding around the trees that you can target on your way to the Molalla, just across from Molalla State Park. I have not seen salmon anglers parked anywhere around that area. The salmon fishing tends to be in certain spots on the upper Willy and most of it is tight lipped. My friend want to take his boat out and target some upper Willy springers and I have yet to find out anything solid about that fishery. The Molalla has been dropping quite a bit in the past couple weeks but you might be able to make it pretty far and should be able to target the mouth of the Pudding.
Hi Bass,
Did you catch any sturgeon around Hebb? The water downstream from Hebb is probably a little faster than the shallows around rock island, but i'm not sure. In september, i motored above rock island in search of smallies, and when i went through the shallows the water was moving along at a good clip. But one thing is for sure....the fast water above rock island is only for a short distance, and the fast water below Hebb Park stays fast for a long...long...ways...maybe half a mile or more. I shot down river half a mile very quickly when i hit the Hebb Park rapids before I realized it. When I was motoring back up, i was thinking of what it would be like to try and paddle up it if my motor failed...i landed one smallie in the rapids...had a couple more nice takedowns...then that nagging feeling of my motor going down and me having to try to paddle back up to the Hebb launch...lol. I got out of there after about 20 minutes of struggling to hold my position while fishing.
Yeah, Hebb Park is awesome on weekdays. I was the only boat on the water until 10 am. I will definitely fish it again this summer. I want to hit the Yamhill on the next sunny day in May. I've never fished it...i will launch out of Dayton.