Local Waters
Blue Lake Park
Fairview, OR · about 2 hours from Maupin (typical, off-peak)
Metro stocked lake.
Salt River / stream Lake / pond Shop (desk) Guide only Parking Stay State access Private — ask first
- Season
- Legal on many waters. West-side streams drop and warm. Fish dawn. Confirm ODFW. Official rule
- License
- Oregon angling license (ODFW)
- Park
- Metro Blue Lake Park. Fee. Advisory on eating fish — read the sign.
- Walk in
- Short walk from the public lot.
- Wading
- Confirm flow before you step in.
- Usual window
- Confirm ODFW for this week.
- Saturday conditions
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N 7 mph around dawn. Fine to go.
- Sky
- 🌧️ 71° rain
- Sun and moon
- Rise 9:17 · 🌔 Waxing gibbous · Set 11:08
- Wind at dawn
- N 7 mph · Slight Chance Rain Showers · 65°F
- Wind later
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- dawn: N 7 mph
- 10am: NE 8 mph
- 2pm: NE 8 mph
- dusk: NE 7 mph
- Next dawn (Sunday)
- E 5 mph around dawn. Fine to go. · E 5 mph
- A setup that belongs here
- 5- or 6-wt unless the water is bigger.
- Notes
- Portland 50-list. Consumption advisory. Confirm ODFW.
Overnight plan: Saturday evening and Sunday dawn. Book two nights if you want the morning. Drive time is to the stay, then a few minutes to the water.
OHA fish advisory on the Columbia Slough system. Read it.
Log this trip
Private. On this phone, and in your test book if you signed in on Journal.
Shops
Guides
Shop desks, plus a few independents who fish public water. We do not take a cut. Call them.
No desk pinned yet. Ask the shop above who they trust here.