Hills Creek Reservoir Updates

Hills Creek Reservoir - Oakridge, OR (Lane County)


by OR Department of Fish & Wildlife Staff
6-4-2025
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Was last stocked the week of April 28, with 3,500 hatchery rainbow trout. Don't forget that you can keep hatchery Chinook in the reservoir as mentioned below.

Hills Creek Reservoir is located about four miles southeast of Oakridge and is open to year-round fishing. In addition to catchable-size trout, the reservoir is stocked with 60,000 adipose fin-clipped rainbow trout fingerlings annually and 100,000 adipose fin-clipped spring Chinook salmon fingerlings (when available) to provide a harvest fishery the following year. This makes for a great early-spring fishery on large fish.

Trout and salmon must be adipose fin-clipped to be harvested. Large native trout are available for catch-and-release fishing. Packard Boat Ramp (USFS) generally remains accessible at all normal reservoir elevation.







6-3-2025
The water level in the reservoir is slowly decreasing as late season rains have failed to materialize. The boat ramp...... Read More