Historic McKenzie Landing reopens

FRANK ARMENDARIZ / PHOTO. It was in the 1960s that anglers began to realize that smallmouth bass were present in the lower Umpqua River. Pictured is one of a couple of dozen that were fooled by a purple wooly worm style fly.

After a delay in part due to the rough weather that swept across western Oregon this spring,  the McKenzie River Trust, owners of several parcels of land along the banks of the McKenzie River, recently announced that its Finn Rock boat landing is again open to the public. In past editions of the Anglers Log, I shared most of the details of the rebuilt landing. Among those key features are improvements making the landing…

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