Local Waters

← Around Carlisle

Lake / pond Open — summer low / warm

Lost Lake (Nehalem / Elsie)

Elsie, OR · about 61 hours from Carlisle (typical, off-peak)

Easy Angling Northwest leftover — the Coast Range Lost Lake, not the Hood one.

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.

Season
Legal on many waters. West-side streams drop and warm. Fish dawn. Confirm ODFW. Official rule
License
Oregon angling license (ODFW)
Park
Clatsop State Forest Lost Lake day-use and primitive launch off Lost Lake Rd east of Spruce Run Park on Nehalem River Rd.
Walk in
Short from the forest lot around the shore.
Wading
Bank, tube, or small boat. Whole-lake bank.
Usual window
Stocked March into September. Surplus steelhead some winters. Confirm ODFW.
Monday conditions

N 5 mph around dawn. Fine to go.

Sky
⛅ 85° partly
Sun and moon
Rise 9:24 · 🌔 Waxing gibbous · Set 11:09
Wind at dawn
N 5 mph · Mostly Clear · 58°F
Wind later
  • dawn: N 5 mph
  • 10am: N 3 mph
  • 2pm: N 3 mph
  • dusk: NNW 6 mph
A setup that belongs here
4- or 5-wt.
Notes
Easy Angling Northwest. Named state-forest day-use. Confirm ODFW.
Maps Call shop

Log this trip

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

N 5 mph · Mostly Clear

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.

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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