FISHING

Mt. Hood Territory is home to 20 of Oregon’s top 50 places to fish within a 60-minute drive from Portland. Lakes, rivers and streams teem with salmon, steelhead, trout and small mouth bass for anglers of all experience levels. Find superb fishing year round from boat or bank, including winter steelhead and spring Chinook.

Sign up for fly fishing lessons or a guided adventure trip on the Willamette, Sandy, Salmon, Clackamas and Molalla Rivers. Learn to drift and troll from a kayak. Get your kids excited about the catch at Rainbow Trout Farm. Camp at Trillium, Timothy or Frog Lakes and cast your line for days in the cold, clear alpine waters. Make it a fishing bike trip with plenty of stops at favorite fishing holes along the Cascading Rivers Scenic Bikeway.

Hone in on the best spots to find the fish you’re angling to catch any day of the year. The Territory’s map-based Fish Finder (below) is a collaboration with Clackamas County Tourism and the Northwest Sportfishing Industry Association (NSIA).

TRIP IDEAS

Better Than Dollars Better Than Love: Fishing On The Clackamas River

“I have lived,” Rudyard Kipling wrote in 1889. “The American Continent may now sink under the sea, for I have taken the best that it yields, and the best was neither dollars, love, nor real esta...

Guided Fishing Adventures In Mt. Hood Territory

There's not much that compares to the feeling of being out on a beautiful body of water, enjoying the scenery and company of friends and/or family, and then suddenly feeling that telltale tug on your...

Fly Fishing In Oregon's Mt. Hood Territory

They say a bad day fishing beats a good day working. It's even better when your good day working is fishing as I experienced this morning with Mark from The Fly Fishing Shop in Welches....

Fisherman in red shirt and waders using bright orange line on his reel stands in middle of Sandy River and casts his fly

Fishing In The Spray

A person can learn a lot about the history of our state in the spray at Willamette Falls. Here, the Clackamas peoples and the Wasco, Warm Springs, Multnomah, Yakama, Molalla, Tualatin and other tribes...

Spray from Willamette Falls fills the air as three fishermen fish from boat at base of falls.

Great Kids' Fishing Spots In Mt. Hood Territory

Few things are more exciting for a kid than their first time fishing. Mt. Hood Territory is home to some excellent fishing holes specifically designed or designated for kids, so you can get busy makin...

Circular photo of parents helping kids fishfrom the water's edge at the Canby Community Park fishing pond

Angling For Adventure In Mt. Hood Territory

Mt. Hood Territory is home to 20 of Oregon’s top 50 places to fish within a 60-minute drive from Portland. Lakes, rivers and streams team with salmon, steelhead, trout and small mouth bass. Novice a...