Article: Best creeks, still water for easy-does-it angling.(Discovery)

Byline: Maddy Sheehan For The Register-Guard

For a leisure day of fishing in the Lane County area, look for relatively safe streams, lakes or ponds.

Holes with shallow edges, modest depth, still water or minimal current, and brush-free banks for casting await families and all other anglers hoping for an easy-does-it outing.

Alton Baker Canoe Canal

This pleasant little diversion of the Willamette River, created primarily for canoeing from Springfield to Eugene, is quiet and shallow with grassy banks and nave hatchery trout.

Fish and Wildlife keeps the canal well stocked with rainbow trout from February through the summer. These ...

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