Honestly, don’t count on dinner but do count on stunning scenery and the potential for a fantastic battle.Īt this writing, fishing is only open here December through March.Īccess is from Cummins Creek Road off Highway 101, at the very north edge of Lane County, about four miles south of Yachats. The wild fish must be released, but the very rare hatchery stray (with clipped and healed adipose fin) may be kept. This stream offers a pretty decent wild winter steelhead fishery in the Cummins Creek Wilderness area’s old growth forest of Sitka spruce and Douglas fir trees. Honeyman Memorial State Park.īank angling for trout is often quite good from the fishing docks or right off the dunes on the west side.
You’ll find good bank and boat access, especially at Jessie M. There also are the other assortment of panfish, perch and bullhead catfish here.Īt 87 acres, this is a mid-sized lake just off Highway 101 south of Florence. The lake also is planted with fingerling trout that grow to keeper size. This is a nice all-around fishery, generously stocked during the spring months with hatchery rainbow trout (including some big ones) and a fair spot to try for largemouth bass.
They are typically stocked with hatchery rainbow trout, often on the same days, a handful of times during the late winter through spring months.Īlder tends to get the largest and most frequent doses of stocked trout, followed by Dune. The trio of lakes are lined up on the east side of Highway 101, a half to one mile north of Sutton Lake. These are a trio of small dune-country lakes located north of Florence. Listed alphabetically, here are some of the best fishing spots in western Lane County: Alder, Buck and Dune Lakes The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife regulates waters in this area primarily under the Northwest and Marine zones.īesides the cities of Florence and Dunes City, western Lane County includes unincorporated areas such as Ada, Blachly, Cushman, Deadwood, Heceta Beach, Mapleton, Searose Beach, Swisshome, Walton and Westlake.īesides angling, it’s a popular place with destinations including the Oregon Dunes, Sea Lion Caves and Heceta Head Lighthouse. Within this article and also at the end are lots of links to various resources to get the most out of fishing in western Lane County and elsewhere in Oregon, including neighboring counties. This article focuses on the part of the county regulated under the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Northwest Zone.įor the eastern section that includes the Eugene-Springfield area in the Willamette Valley and the upper reaches of the Willamette and McKenzie river systems in the high country, click here.įlorence is about 60 miles west of Eugene via Highway 126, although some waters listed here are even closer to the southern valley’s major population center. The most popular fisheries are centered around the area’s many small and several large fishing lakes, which boast good fishing for trout, bass, panfish and even salmon, as well as in the Siuslaw River system, among the state’s best for fall Chinook salmon fishing and no slouch for winter steelhead.īecause Lane County is so huge and stretches across two major fishing zones from the saltwater to the summit of the Cascade Mountains, we’ve divided it into two articles. The part of Lane County from the western slopes of the Coast Range mountains to the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area is a land of many fishing options, most of them within an easy drive of the charming coastal city of Florence.
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