The Caddis Fly: Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

On February 18, 2009 a stream survey team found a gillnet hidden in the bushes where Beamer Creek Road intersects the diminutive and inaptly named Yachats River.
Located  south of Newport, the Yachats hosts runs of fall chinook and coho as well as winter steelhead.  Special angling regulations are in place to protect these runs.  Anglers [...]

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Few things in winter steelheading are certain.  The only certainty is that following a blowout the rivers drop into perfect shape on a weekday only to  blow out again on Friday before dropping back in on Monday. . . . I know I’m not the only one to ruefully observe this pattern.
Well, if the forecast [...]

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This Saturday, Trout Unlimited members and the public are invited to participate in our riparian vegetation enhancement project in the Whilamut natural area of Alton Baker park on the Willamette River.
What began 2007 as a blackberry thicket has been transformed into an area where native vegetation may again thrive.  As you know, invasive species are [...]

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I left Eugene around 5am this past Wednesday with excitement and hope. Hope that torrential rain had moved fresh winter steelhead into many of our coastal rivers, and that one of them would be in shape enough to fish. And excitement to catch a coastal river on the drop with unmolested chrome bright winter steelhead. [...]

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Register Guard features fly fishing for rock fish
This week, the Register-Guard’s Mike Stalhberg wrote up an article about fly fishing for bottom fish off the Oregon Coast. The shop’s own Nate Stansberry was quoted saying “We out-fish conventional tackle like three to one,” which guarantees he’ll get skunked his next three trips out.
Speaking [...]

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So you finally had a big day on the river and you killed a couple of hatchery hens. It seemed like a great idea at the time, but back home on the fillet table, you end up with a pile of eggs and a set of so-so fillets that you’ll either smoke or give away [...]

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Right now you need to get ready for some of the best trout fishing of the year, literally a few miles from downtown Eugene, on the lower Mckenzie River.
Fly fishing really kicks into high gear starting this month with the March Brown hatch. The Lower McKenzie River runs from below Leaburg Dam down to [...]

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