Hills Creek Reservoir Updates

Hills Creek Reservoir - Oakridge, OR (Lane County)


by OR Department of Fish & Wildlife Staff
6-10-2025
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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. 




More Reports

OR Department of Fish & Wildlife Reports
for Tuesday, June 10th

Alton Baker Canoe Canal: Will be stocked each week in June
Blue River: Will be stocked the week of June 10th
Blue River Reservoir: Blue River Reservoir Updates
Breitenbush River: Access will be somewhat curtailed for the next few weeks
Clear Lake: Clear Lake Updates
Coast Fork Willamette River: Coast Fork Willamette River Update
Cottage Grove Reservoir: Open to fishing all year
Detroit Reservoir: The reservoir is now completely full
Dexter Reservoir: Dexter Reservoir Updates
Dorena Reservoir: Dorena Reservoir Updates
Fall Creek Reservoir: The reservoir is currently being held down
Gold Lake: Gold Lake Updates
Green Peter Reservoir: The water level in the reservoir is slowly decreasing