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Premier trout river below Leaburg Dam near Eugene. Drift boat and wade fishing with dam-regulated flows.
A quick view of the latest report, gauge, hatch, and fly data available for this water. Missing observations are left unreported rather than estimated.
Recent reports mention access near boat ramps and old Deerhorn Golf Course, below Leaburg Dam, Blue River area down to Ben & Kay.
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Reference location for this water. Individual reports and gauges may describe other locations; this is not a verified access point.
McKenzie River location
44.1237, -122.6276
Observations from the last 48 hours. Each measurement and chart describes its named station.
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Fly Fishers Place
Fishing was pretty good over the past week with the season winding down. Float trips and walk-and-wade opportunities available near boat ramps and the old Deerhorn Golf Course area.
Reported location: access near boat ramps and old Deerhorn Golf Course
Fly Fishers Place
Quality guide days on the McKenzie with float and wade fishing both productive. Low water has opened up more wading opportunities, with trout spey anglers swinging leeches and sculpins.
Reported water clarity: clear
Fly Fishers Place
Fishing well on float trips with good Chubby dropper action and excellent side-drifting with streamers. Lower water is improving walk-and-wade access, and trout spey fishing is also producing.
Fly Fishers Place
The McKenzie is holding up better than expected and guide trips are still running. A steelhead was landed by a client recently, adding to the excitement.
Fly Fishers Place
Guides are reporting quality trips with lots of dry-dropper action and good side-drifting of leeches and nymphs.
Fly Fishers Place
Flows are dropping and guides are bumping rocks in spots, but fishing has been good with leeches, jigs, and perdigons. Dry dropper rigs with a chubby are also producing.
Reported location: below Leaburg Dam
Fly Fishers Place
McKenzie is fishing well despite low flows, with float trips still possible. Guides are doing well on a chubby with perdigon dropper, plus leeches and streamers.
Reported location: below Leaburg Dam
Fly Fishers Place
Guides reported super positive results with dry-dropper and nymph setups. Trout Spey anglers swinging small streamers and nymphing with golden stones and possie buggers have also found success.
Reported location: Blue River area down to Ben & Kay
Hatches in this report: Callibaetis.
Odfw Willamette Zone
Last stocked in early September with 2,000 hatchery rainbow trout. Summer steelhead fishing remains open year-round; only adipose fin-clipped salmon and steelhead may be retained, plus non-clipped steelhead over 24 inches.
Reported location: below Leaburg Dam (R1)
View original report ↗Odfw Willamette Zone
Last stocked in early September with 2,000 hatchery rainbow trout. Summer steelhead fishing remains open year-round; retention of adipose fin-clipped salmon and steelhead allowed.
Reported location: below Leaburg Lake (R1)
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