Wanted to go up to the John Day where it mty's into the Columbia for cats today. But phone went out yesterday and the repair man still hasn't made it here! Going to have to work on his attitude. But been thinking about the trip and the John Day Dam on the Columbia isn't really that far from the mouth of the river. But the river is on the side of the dam that the water feed's into. Read to try below the dam where the water come's out, calmer water off to the side, for cats. Seem's the fish chewed up by the dam settle there and the cats collect there. Well just below the dam a bit is a pull out with a ramp to the Columbia where I could easily walk the bank to where I'm thinking of going. Thinking of leaving the boat home as we've been overwhelmed with wind there for several weeks. Turns the Columbia and the John Day into something resembling the ocean in a bad storm! Tried the John Day several weeks ago with the boat and it was a nightmare!