The Caddis Fly: Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Today, the Siuslaw is at an excellent level for fly fishing. The river is at 5.11 and holding fairly steady. While this is a little low for the Whitaker Creek area, that level does present good wading opportunities and also allows your fly to easily get in the strike zone.  A level like that also eases pressure a little—plus, the armada should be thinning out, you’ll catch as many wild as hatchery fish right now and the bright ones are fewer and farther between.  They are still there to be caught though.

There is enough water to drift from Whitaker Creek to Wildcat and there are fish in that run. I’ve also found that at this level the fishing can be very good from a driftboat between Wildcat and Linslaw.  The river is forecast to drop slowly until Thursday afternoon when it should rise sharply.

Good fishing can be had until it does and then again when it stabilizes and clears.