You lucky Dog. I would give a arm, or even both to have a river front house on major fishing. I even came into some money a few years ago and hunted relentlessly for such a place, weekend retreat/cabin/summer house/extra house along the Sandy, Salmon, Clackamas, Nehalem(my personal favorite)and many other rivers semi close to Portland. Man, they just go for too much. It is my personal dream in life to own a place like yours. I finally thought I had found it. On the Nehalem(upper) and all state forest land all around, no other homes even remotely near it, all isolated, except for one house a mile away, 10 miles besides that, all isolated. A two story homemade cabin. Personally I would of loved to live there, but too far to commute to PDX. About a half hour in from the coast from the town of Nehalem. I did not see any power lines to his cabin. (my favorite fishing whole is .5 mile down from his cabin. no one on the planet knows this hole(which is actually a long stretch along a big bend with tons of super deep holes). I have to hike down to get to it. And behind his cabin are the sweetest, deepest, dream holes one can every find on that stretch of river, even better then my secret hole). So I did tax research, online, to try to find(stalk) the owner to see if he would be open to selling it. And after much time, I finally found it. Older retired guy owns it, no sons, just daughters, and a Portland guy. It was on 18 acres. (I would of been happy with 1-3). And it seems to have built it without permits, as it was just listed as only land, and that special forest type land, ie low tax rate. He only was charged like 120 bucks/year. So I found his address, and tried stalking him for a year, never able to catch anyone home. Finally did, his wife had died, (no sons to pass it on too). I thought I would offer 50 grand, and even as high as 200 grand. (for I wanted it really bad). And ya, the guy was willing to sell he told me in his dinning room. But at 1.5 million. lol
I was heart broken! I have never seen a more beautiful piece of property in my whole life. And it was major isolated. All I could think was the joy of fishing out of my backyard, lol. It was truly a fly-fishermans paradise. And I was already planning on a 2.5 hour commute, lol. Had my life all planned. And he had to get all greedy and dreamy on me. LOL.... And it was only a simple two story cabin, nothing fancy. But that water, that property. He had the best fishing holes in Oregon, and did not even know it cause he does not even freaking fish. LOL URRRRRRRRRRRRR I am still ticked about that!!! LOL
I envy you buddy. I love many rivers. But when I see great rivers, loaded with all kinds of native trout, even better tons of steelhead, and even Salmon, and in that case, actually Ocean going Brown Trout too, mixed with in the Mountains,,,and then you add total isolated, not being bugged by cars driving by much on any roads nearby,,,,man, it was pure heaven. And those woods, the whole scenery, I just love that place. That whole stretch, all the way from Hyway 26 south along that country road, until the junction near Nehalem. That whole part of the Coastal Mnt Range just blow me away. But honestly, I would take any riverfront property on any decent river. I would be the happiest guy on earth! I do envy you buddy!!!
