Gales Creek’s Dorman Pond will receive the pond’s second shipment of trout in 2025 at some point next week.
1,000 legal-size rainbow trout are scheduled to be deposited into the pond just west of the junction of Highway 6 and 8 sometime between April 14 and 18. The Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife doesn’t disclose the exact stocking date
Find more stocking dates and locations at myodfw.com/fishing/species/trout/stocking-schedule.

Chas Hundley is the editor of the Gales Creek Journal and sister news publications the Banks Post and the Salmonberry Magazine. He grew up in Gales Creek and has a cat.