In Oregon, there’s one place where you’re allowed to fish for free – and you’ve got a former Albany newspaper owner to thank for that.
It’s in Oregon’s famous Crater Lake where you can wet a line without paying The Man. Yet very few people ever do, because the lake is one of the largest bodies of water in the state – not in terms of surface area, of course, but it’s so deep it holds an enormous amount of water – and the fish colony isn’t big.
It’s free because the fish aren’t actually supposed to be there. Crater Lake never had fish in it before, and that’s part of why its water is so clear and brilliantly blue…