RT
I must take exception with your comment that anglers may access the water from a legal access point if they entered it at a legal access point.This is the law in Montana not Oregon.
This is only true if the stream is "navagable".Very few streams in Oregon are navigable.Good example is the Clackamas.Surely this River meets all the criteria to be navigable but it is only "declared" navigable up to the Hwy 99 bridge.1,000 meters up from the mouth.Droping anchor on a non-navigable is a dubious action.In Multnomah County the sheriff will ticket you if the landowner/landowners can show a deed to the middle of the river or a meander line.This does not mean you will be found guilty but it means you will waste a day in court unless you can pursuade the DA to not prosecute.In other counties some Shefiffs have decided to look the other way and then some just write you up regardless of the DA's instrucitons.This is done to make the landowner happy and as an immediate remedy for the landowner as most people will leave when they receive a ticket.Not me if I have done my homework.A trip to the County Court house will sometimes save your bacon.Often times landowners will bluff both the sheriff and the angler into believeing they own deed to both sides of a stream that may or may not meet the navagability criteria.
The property in questiion is EAGLE CREEK a tributary of the Clackamas.Not a navigable water by any strech of imagination.The property owner owns both sides of the Creek.This is in the area known as the 2nd ladder.Snagging and fishing closed water has been a problem for decades.OSP needed a full time Cop there when the Creek was the major supplier for Spring Kings for the Clack & Sandy Rivers.This area was responsable for the most felony & misdemeanor tickets per hour in Oregon.The property is a PIG Pen for thoughtless slob anglers.Trash of all kinds surrounds the area and that is a major reason it is now CLOSED to the public.Once again a few ruin something for the masses.Paid full - time Police oficers are patroling the area.Parking at the yellow gate and tresspasssing in is a thing of the past.I used to do it and I will bet RT did too.We all knew we were tresspassing as the property was well marked and the NEW trail avoided the dwelling.I have fished this property for over 30 years.Too bad it is gone.Maybe $400 a year to fish clean properties where your car won't get bashed and you have access to lakes, ponds and rivers is a good deal.I've been known to sit in the bushes at Marmot and other places waiting for car bashers who will be lucky to survive my wrath.But that's another issue.