The Caddis Fly: Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Jay Nicholas knows how to catch Chinook salmon on the fly. He spent the last 30 years studying and supporting wild salmon as a fisheries biologist with ODFW and has been fly fishing since 1954. He was a longtime gear fisherman, but after catching his first king salmon on the fly rod, it was over. [...]

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This is going to be a December to remember at The Caddis Fly Angling Shop. Let’s start with the most important announcement: Steelhead brewery beer on tap at the shop the entire month of December.
Also, we’ve launched our online store today, CaddisFlyShop.com. Chris just did a new video listing the best fly fishing Christmas gifts [...]

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If you’re serious about fly fishing for salmon in Oregon, check out this pattern from Barrett: An all-orange comet. Barrett ties them on a small glo-bug hook. The short shank and wide gap hooks provide good hooking power, without giving the salmon leverage to work the hook out. Small, bright salmon patterns work great in [...]

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Wading into northwest forest policy is kind of like skinny dipping with piranha only more dangerous and probably dumber.  Nonetheless, as anglers who care deeply about the health of our salmon and steelhead runs and the rivers that nurture them we can’t sit quietly by as the BLM puts great local rivers and the fish [...]

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Earlier this fall, Randy Dersham (owner of Eagle Rock Lodge and McKenzie River Drift boats) launched a social networking site for wooden boat enthusiasts called WoodenBoatPeople.com. The site has forums, blog posts, photos and advice for building wood boats and running them through whitewater. So far, 33 members have signed up, and the site has [...]

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The Oregon Fly Fishing Blog has a new podcast feature. You can find all of our fly fishing podcasts on this Switchpod page which will automatically update each time we upload a new episode.
Here are the podcast episodes so far:
Chris Daughters discusses fly fishing for bonefish in the Bahamas.
Former Caddis Fly Shop owner Bob Guard [...]

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In this new fly tying video, Barrett shows you how to tie the Blue Wing Olive (BWO) Thorax Dun, a simple pattern that will fish well all year and should be in your winter trout hunting arsenal.

Blue Wing Olive BWO Thorax Dun materials available at CaddisFlyShop.com:
Hook: TMC 100 14-20
Thread: 8/0 gray uni thread
Tail: Gray fibbets
Body: [...]

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Sunday morning a crew of Trout Unlimited Chapter 678 volunteers teamed up with McKenzie River trust to work on the Green Island Project.

We planted 250 trees — cottonwoods, big leaf maple and alder — along an historic side channel on the Willamette and McKenzie Rivers confluence. We also got to check out the [...]

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After a few weeks hiatus due to technical difficulties, we’re back in business with the fly tying videos.
You could fish an Adams Parachute 12 months a year in Oregon — passing for tiny BWOs in the winter to giant Gray Drakes on the Upper McKenzie in late summer. In this fly tying video, Barrett shows [...]

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After a couple of days fishing the John Day River with Steelhead Guide Ethan Nickel, we headed over to the Deschutes River for one of his last floats of the year. On the way we met up with fishing guide Kyle Duke who makes the float with Ethan and clients often. The fishing did not [...]

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