Alright, I'm gonna try to list as many creeks that dump into the Clackamas as I can. A half dozen or so even sustain small native runs of Steelhead. From the mouth up, here it goes...
Rock Creek, Clear, Foster, Deep, Goose, Eagle, South Fork Clackamas River, Moore Creek, Hellion, Fish, Murphy, Roaring River, Pup Creek, Cat, Deer, Three Lynx, Cripple, Sandstone, Whale, Big, Oak Grove Fork Clackamas River, Trout Creek, Collawash River, Switch Creek, Granite, Lost, Cabin, Kansas, Cambell, Pinhead, Wall, Lowe, Rhododendron, Fawn, Hunter, Sisi, Cub, and above the Big Bottom area, is Lemiti Creek.
Rock Creek to Eagle Creek are all on the lower Clack. Creeks between SF Clack to OGF Clack are usually too small to hold fish, but their mouths are usually full. Minus Roaring River, and Fish Creek, they stay full enough to sustain resident runs, and one has mini Steel in the winter.
Above Trout Creek is the Collawash which has a buncha fish, and the rest of the creeks near the campgrounds always produce. The upper reaches of the Clack take you over near MT. Jefferson, and the fish are few and far between up there, although during fly hatches, it gets crazy in theBig Bottom area. About 10 river miles of wadeable flat river, perfect for swinging bugs.
Not all have fish, and not all are open to be angled, but I have hooked fish in close to 90 percent of the waterways listed. Sorry to hijack the biz out of this thread, but to get it back on track...
Did that fish happen to have a noodle tag anywhere. I have heard of a whole bunch, that strayed from other systems up in that river this year. Just curious if you ended up with one. Or have heard of any recently.
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