The Caddis Fly: Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Tom Keelin, an engineering guru and fly fisherman, recently published a new, more accurate way to estimate the weight of fish. The article ran in the May 2008 issue of Fly Fisherman. The conventional formula: weight = length x girth (squared)/800 underestimates the true weight of steelhead, according to Keelin. The more accurate equation, based […]

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Yesterday we floated from Deerhorn to Hendricks on the McKenzie River. We were on the water from 10:30am to 5:30pm and didn’t see a single fish rise. There were some large mayflies and large caddis coming off, but not enough to make a big difference in the surface action. Todd Mullen, VP of Trout Unlimited […]

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