Byline: JEFF BARNARD Associated Press
TRAIL, Ore. Locked between a dam and a fish hatchery is a short stretch of the Rogue River sculpted by bulldozers and filled with fish from 3,000 miles away that has come to be called the Holy Water.
It's a fitting place to sit and think about old photos of grinning fishermen holding stripped saplings sagging with the weight of dozens of huge dead fish from days long before there were dams or hatcheries here.
As the only fly-fishing-only and catch-and-release section of the Rogue, this place has become the home water for a lot of fly fishermen from Ashland, Medford and Grants Pass in southwestern Oregon.
It is in the lower slopes of the Cascade Range between the Lost Creek Dam and the Cole Rivers Fish Hatchery. People fish here …
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