Cooper Creek Reservoir

Type
Lake or reservoir, Oregon (West)
Designation
Featured sport-fishing water
USGS gauges
None listed
Guides
None listed
Shops
None listed

Today on Cooper Creek Reservoir

No live reading for this water
Why there is no reading

Nothing live is published for this water, so there is no reading or verdict today. The readings section below says what we checked.

Regulations & access Guides & shops

Cooper Creek Reservoir is a lake or reservoir in Oregon, listed as Featured sport-fishing water by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.

More about Cooper Creek Reservoir

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife lists 3 species, including bass, bluegill and trout.

Updated · Sources: ODFW '50 places to go fishing' guides (Portland, Medford, Roseburg, Bend, Lane County, South Coast), ODFW '50 places to go fishing' guides (Portland, Medford, Roseburg, Bend, Lane County, South Coast)

Representative photograph of similar water; not a photograph of this place.
Representative photograph, not this water.
Where it is

Cooper Creek Reservoir is a lake or reservoir in Oregon.

No real-time gauge

No real-time gauge on this water. We found no active USGS gauge on Cooper Creek Reservoir or on its stream system within about 25 miles, and no dam operator publishes data for it. A missing gauge says nothing about the water itself. Find the gauges nearest Cooper Creek Reservoir

About these readings

Nothing live is published for this water; the note below says what we checked.

Where to fish

About this

Start from the agency's public access map. Nothing on this page grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish.

Nothing on this page grants or implies access.

Restrooms near Cooper Creek Reservoir

Restrooms near Cooper Creek Reservoir

Restrooms within 2 miles of Cooper Creek Reservoir in a straight line, nearest first, with what anglers found when they went. The map says a restroom is there, not whether it is clean or open today.

No restroom mapped within 2 mi yet — add one you know.

Campgrounds, fishing access sites and boat ramps often have one that isn't on the map yet.

Restroom locations and map details: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License, read Oct 24, 2026. Ratings, answers and photos are members' own; who shared them is never shown, and every photo is reviewed before it appears. Visits older than 18 months no longer count. Distances are straight-line miles, not driving. Nothing here grants access to private land. Community guidelines.

More water near Cooper Creek Reservoir

  • The North Umpqua River rushing blue-white over dark rock through dense green forestFeatured sport-fishing water
    Photo credit

    The North Umpqua Wild and Scenic River, Oregon. Photo: Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

    North Umpqua River

    Oregon · about 10 mi

    Steelhead

  • The Middle Fork Willamette River flowing past Clearwater ParkFeatured sport-fishing waterRepresentative photo · not Little River
    Photo credit

    The Middle Fork Willamette River at Clearwater Park, Springfield, Oregon. Photo: Rick Obst, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Little River.

    Little River

    Oregon · about 15 mi

  • Fishing boats moored on the Siuslaw River at FlorenceFreestone riverRepresentative photo · not Umpqua River
    Photo credit

    The Siuslaw River at Florence, Oregon. Photo: Visitor7, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Umpqua River.

    Umpqua River

    Oregon · about 20 mi

  • The clear, fast McKenzie River between forested banks near the Goodpasture covered bridgeFeatured sport-fishing waterRepresentative photo · not Coast Fork Willamette River
    Photo credit

    The McKenzie River near the Goodpasture covered bridge, Oregon. Photo: pithecanthropus4152, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Coast Fork Willamette River.

    Coast Fork Willamette River

    Oregon · about 26 mi

    Steelhead, chinook salmon & coho salmon

  • Eel Creek in Tugman State ParkFeatured sport-fishing waterRepresentative photo · not Mosby Creek
    Photo credit

    Eel Creek in William M. Tugman State Park, Oregon. Photo: RickObst, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Mosby Creek.

    Mosby Creek

    Oregon · about 26 mi

  • Lake Billy Chinook filling a basalt canyon, with layered rimrock cliffs along the waterFeatured sport-fishing waterRepresentative photo · not Ben Irving Reservoir
    Photo credit

    Lake Billy Chinook, Oregon. Photo: icetsarina, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Ben Irving Reservoir.

    Ben Irving Reservoir

    Oregon · about 27 mi

    Panfish

Regulations

About this

Seasons, limits, special regulations and closures for each reach are on the agency pages below. Read them before you go.

Official designation: Featured sport-fishing water

Each comes from the agency's own published list; where the list names a reach it is quoted. A designation applies to the listed reach, not necessarily the whole water. Listed in the finder under trout, bass.

Guides and shops near Cooper Creek Reservoir

About this

Listings marked Unclaimed are built from open map records and the business's own website: confirm licensing, rates, dates and hours directly.

Guides

No guide within 40 miles yet.

Shops nearby

No shop nearby yet.

How these are chosen

Guides whose own website names this water come first, nearest first. Distances are straight-line.

Shops: fly shops first. A distance is shown when the shop’s website gives its location (within 60 miles); otherwise the shop is in one of the towns within 25 miles of the water.

Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories.

Species and hatches

About this

The species the agency lists here; presence varies by reach and season.

Listed by the state agency

  • An underwater photograph of a sunfish hovering over a rocky bottom, deep-bodied with a dark ear flap

    Panfish

    Species guide

    Photo credit

    A bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus), photographed by Ryan Hagerty for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Photo: Ryan Hagerty/USFWS, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

  • Bass
  • Trout

When the bugs come off

Regional hatch months: Pacific Northwest
About this chart

1 hatch charted for the region, not measured on this water. From Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife.

  1. January: no charted hatch
  2. February: no charted hatch
  3. March: no charted hatch
  4. April: no charted hatch
  5. May: 1 charted hatch
  6. June: no charted hatch
  7. July: no charted hatch
  8. August: no charted hatch
  9. September: no charted hatch
  10. October: no charted hatch
  11. November: no charted hatch
  12. December: no charted hatch

Salmonfly (May)

Plan a trip here

About this

None of our destination hubs is within 40 miles in a straight line. The trip planner builds a trip around the water itself: the guides and shops listed within 40 miles of it, its gauges and its nearest towns and airports.

No hub within 40 miles

Gear checklist

About this

A stillwater fly-fishing checklist for lakes and ponds: a 9–10 ft 5–6 weight rod, floating and intermediate lines, chironomids and leeches, and float-tube options, with estimated prices and where to buy.

An angler stands knee-deep in a calm lake with the rod bent, playing a trout

Lakes & stillwater

9′–10′ rod, 5–6 weight, floating + intermediate lines · Rainbow, brook and brown trout in lakes

Open the checklist
Videos for this water (3)

Watch: stillwater trout basics

About this

Chironomids, leeches and where fish hold in a lake.

Public YouTube videos from established channels, chosen by us to support this page. Not sponsored; the creators are not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear.

  • Catch More Trout in Lakes Using Indicators – Stillwater Fly Fishing TipsEmbedded from YouTube · Fly Fish Food · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube
  • Stillwater Fly Fishing Is Simpler Than You Think! | Introduction to Stillwater Fly FishingEmbedded from YouTube · Fly Fish Food · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube
  • Why is this Chironomid Fly Pattern So Versatile? | Two-Toner BC Chironomid | Fly Tying TutorialEmbedded from YouTube · Fly Fish Food · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube

Not sponsored All videos on stillwater

Fish Tales

About this

Trip stories anglers chose to share publicly and tagged with Cooper Creek Reservoir.

No stories from here yet.

Sources for this page

Not a statement of access, fish presence or conditions.

Something wrong?

All 6 sources and dates

A water page organises discovery. It does not assert public access, legal access, current fish presence, guide availability or fishing conditions.

Flows, gauge statistics and flood stages come from USGS and the National Weather Service when the page is shown. Regulations, stocking, species and season statements link to the agency that publishes them; this page copies only the species names and the quoted sentences. Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories. Position: the point for “Cooper Creek Reservoir” (reservoir) in the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Water type is our own classification.