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.........I have found that there is another river that dumps into the Sandy at Dodge park that indeed does have fish in it. You just have to hike a ways, and you'll see them stacked up in the normal places fish stack up in rivers. No scumbags around either. But, shhhh... Don't tell anyone.
There is a reason no fishermen are up there.... Check the regulations!
Bull Run River up to watershed boundary (Clackamas Co.)
I got a several questions on this subject, I hope that others, who are in the know, will chime in!! I did all my fishing up in Alaska before we moved to Oregon. This business of "flossing" is a new one on me. I too use a leader 4 feet all longer sometimes when I retrieve plugs. I don't want to do anything unethical. IMHO snagging is not as easy as it sounds, the river has to be really packed with fish before the snagger would have any success. I sure don't see such a density of fish in Oregon waters. But I truly dislike people who ignore our laws.
One more question: is it really such a long hike down to the mouth of the Cedar Creek and Sandy? My knee really bothers me lately and I don't know if I could hack the hike.
With this kind of undisciplined crowd, this coho run doesn't have much of a chance of surviving. Heck, it's just down the road from the hatchery, why don't they have more of ODFW people down there catching the law breakers?