Local Waters

← Around Portland, OR

River Open — summer low / warm

Gales Creek (Campground)

Forest Grove, OR · about 60 min from Portland, OR (typical, off-peak)

The Hwy 6 creek west of Hagg Lake that the forums still ask about.

Salt River / stream Lake / pond Shop (desk) Guide only Parking Stay State access Private — ask first

Around now

Most likely in this drive this week. Not a guarantee — confirm the official rule.

  • Smallmouth bass Smallmouth bass
  • Trout Trout
  • Sunfish and crappie Sunfish and crappie

Also worth a thought: Largemouth bass, Salmon.

Season
Legal on many waters. West-side streams drop and warm. Fish dawn. Confirm ODFW. Official rule
License
Oregon angling license (ODFW)
Park
ODF Tillamook State Forest Gales Creek Campground on Hwy 6 west of Forest Grove. State forest camp / day-use on Gales Creek.
Walk in
Short from camp to Gales Creek.
Wading
Small Coast Range creek.
Usual window
Late spring through fall. Confirm ODFW.
Saturday conditions

W 5 mph around dawn. Fine to go.

Sky
☀️ 89° fair
Sun and moon
Rise 9:21 · 🌔 Waxing gibbous · Set 11:12
Wind at dawn
W 5 mph · Patchy Blowing Dust · 84°F
Wind later
  • dawn: W 5 mph
  • 10am: W 5 mph
  • 2pm: W 5 mph
  • dusk: W 14 mph
A setup that belongs here
3- or 4-wt.
Notes
Named Tillamook State Forest campground. Confirm ODFW.
Maps Call shop

Log this trip

Private. On this phone, and in your test book if you signed in on Journal.

W 5 mph · Patchy Blowing Dust

How did it go

Pictures only — no video.

Opens a map. Locate finds you, then tap to drop or drag the pin. Private — not the public map.

Shops

Royal Treatment Fly Fishing

21570 Willamette Dr, West Linn, OR 97068
Often 10:30am–4pm — confirm

Portland metro desk. Clackamas, Sandy, and the lower Willamette.

Call Website

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.

If this isn’t the day