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Wow,talk about bringing back memories! My late husband and I were at a swap meet in San Luis Obispo,California when we both spotted some fishing gear. He had fished a little as a youngster and I had no experience at all. We bought all sorts of gear,some without a clue what to use it for,and made plans for the following weekend. It was great! We each caught a couple of respectable trout at Lake Naciemento and we were hooked. After that,we would wake each other up in the middle of the night and holler "let's go fishing!!"
We started a family a few years later and moved back to Oregon. We slowly put our rods in the back of the garage and seldom had time to get them out to the water. When he was killed in a trucking accident,I became Mom & Dad for our daughter and son,I decided fishing was going to become a family tradition. The kids and I took OFF in the truck and camper with a couple of rods and very little gear but lots of determination. We drove all over the western half of the state and had a grand time. Autofisher caught a king fish at some dam in southern Oregon and caught the fever. Neither of us has ever regretted sharing a love for nature and fishing. Now, if I could just get the lil bugger to eat fish!
GEEZ!
13" Blue Gill?!
Probally felt like a Giant bass.
Oh yes they stocked Johnson Creek and the Clack, Fish Creek, the Molalla, the Deschutes the Hood River the Salmon the Zig Zag and just about anything flowing with water. That was back in the 50s and 60s. When they would stock Johnson Creek between 82nd and 72nd they word would spread through out the neighborhood and us kids (at the time) would grab our fishing rods a jar of eggs, and jump on our bikes and head for the creek. Back then they didn't stock the lakes as much. They put the effort into filling the streams with fish. The limit was 10 fish and the minimum size was 6". It wasn't until much later that they quit stocking rivers and went to stocking the lakes. The whole theroy changed they didn't want folks fishing the rivers and catching samon and steelhead smolts as they would swim toward the ocean. The idea was to put the trout pressure on the lakes where there were no young salmon to hook into. So yes they did stock Johnson Creek.They Stocked Johnson Creek?