The Caddis Fly: Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Caddis Fly guide David Gantman had some guests down on the Umpqua this friday and they stuck some very nice smallmouth.

Effective patterns for smallmouth include Sculpzilla # 8, Tungsten Thin Mint # 8, Cascade Bugger # 8, and Skinny Water Clouser Tan/white #8.
Don’t forget our upcoming two fly tournament

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Fall afternoons and evenings are a great time to explore the Middle Fork of the Willamette below Hills Creek dam. Currently wading opportunities are excellent and fishing has been good from about 3pm on. We are in a great weather pattern and fishing should be great all day if the weather stays in the 70s. [...]

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FYI: These are subject to change! We’re in working mode here, but this is what we’ve come up with.
Mckenzie River Two-Fly Tournament rules
1. Contestants will participate in teams of two, single entrants can be paired up with another angler and make a new fishing partner.
2. The winning team will be determined by total length of [...]

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A couple weeks ago, I received a copy of Dan Callaghan’s North Umpqua, a book of photographs of the river, its character and inhabitants, posthumously published by his wife, Mary Kay Callaghan.
It’s a beautiful book, 156 photographs taken over 50 years. And the layout is perfect, designer Jennifer Huckins does a great job of [...]

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Barrett shows you how to tie his favorite tarpon pattern in this fly tying video. The Craft Fur Shrimp is a great fly for pressured tarpon in the Northern Florida Keys. The little 1/0 hook penetrates better than some of the bigger hooks of the same style. Creating barring with the sharpie will give you [...]

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The smallmouth bass in the Umpqua appear to be bulking up for the winter. The fishing today was very good with literally schools of fish following the fly on countless occasions. Although we did not catch any huge fish  we did put up some great numbers. The fish attacked small white flashy wooly buggers, skinny clousers, and [...]

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Lots of fly fishing links this morning:
Buster clubs Chinook
Buster Wants to Fish is clubbing the first Chinook of the fall season somewhere on the Pacific NW Coast.
TU Bull Trout Rendezvous VIII
The Oregon State Council of TU has annoucned details of its state project — Oct 10-12, the Bull Trout Rendezvous on the Metolius. TU volunteers [...]

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