Lake / pond Open — summer low / warm

Freeway Lakes

Albany, OR · about 2 hours from Sisters (typical, off-peak)

Easy Angling Willamette leftover — the I-5 ponds.

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

Season

Legal on many waters. West-side streams drop and warm. Fish dawn. Confirm ODFW. Official rule

License

Oregon angling license (ODFW)

Park

Freeway Lakes County Park lots on Three Lakes Rd just south of Albany, both sides of I-5. Linn County.

Walk in

Short from the county lots. Bank on the east ponds; ramp on the west pond.

Wading

Bank. Small boats on the west pond.

Usual window

Stocked April–May; bass and panfish later. Confirm ODFW.

Friday conditions

Weather is not in yet.

A setup that belongs here

5-wt.

Notes

Easy Angling Willamette. Named Linn County park. Confirm ODFW.

Maps Call shop

Log this trip

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

168 W 6th Ave, Eugene, OR 97401
Call — valley hours

Willamette Valley desk. McKenzie, the Willamette, and a first Oregon trout day.

Call Website

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.