Lou Verdugo, Caddis Fly Shop employee/guide was joined by Jason and Tara for a successful day on the lower Willamette last weekend (Confluence to Harrisburg). The Willamette provides a place for anglers to improve their skills and get into some great hatches. Tara wanted to increase her knowledge on dry fly fishing, and after a few instructions, Tara proved to be very good dry fly angler!
Overcast skies contributed to a very successful hatch of March Browns and black caddis. Patterns that provided fast action during the hatch were the Western March Brown, Peacock Caddis, Parachute Adams, and “Lou’s Big W” (o.k, it was a cream comparadun with elk hair wing!). The hatch started around 2:00pm and lasted until 4:00pm. Caddis were still active latter in the day and should provide longer hours of great dry fly fishing as our weather, water temps and daylight hours improve.
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1 Garry Pinto // Apr 16, 2008 at 6:42 am
Looks like a fun trip.
2 Matt Stansberry // Apr 16, 2008 at 5:11 pm
I don’t think that Lower Willamette gets a lot of pressure, you know? I’ve never fished it below the town run.
3 Alex Tyler // Apr 21, 2008 at 8:16 am
Or above. around Jasper park years ago, we caught some pretty trout, both species , with dry flies. This was a section of river that when it was in the mood ,produced very hungy trout fish. It was a place that you could toss dry flies too, the wets and catch fish most of the time. and it usually works all the same, Alex
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