Being an Oregon Native (finclipped) My first memory of fishing was with Dad, taking that long drive from Portland to Klamath Falls....I was too small to wade around those boulders and out where the real fish were...i was stuck on the bank catching suckers...big ones i might add but...suckers. My parents have a house and own 15 acres in the Hebo area south of Tillamook...That's where i did most of my early fishing.... I hit the Wilson on the way there before it got dark....and woke very early in the morning to be the first one to a " Sure thing" hole on the upper Nestucca.

I broke my son in at the mouth of Three Rivers which dumps in to the big Nestucca casting Vibrax spinners....and drifting eggs on the North Fork Nehalem targeting Jacks (those guys wading to the middle of the river were missing out on all the tasty smaller fish) I'm on my second boat now and have graduated to the bigger rivers.. CR and Willamette, Don't think i'll go back to fishing the smaller rivers....Well..the Sandy for sure....but those smaller rivers are mostly for learning , which taught me alot....but i'm gonna leave the "meat holes" alone.

Great idea for a post.

Thanks,

Louis F.