The Caddis Fly: Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

I am going share a story of Serendipty. I’ve been lucky.
Wanting a boat to get out in the ocean and being longer on time than money, I decided I could get much more boat for the cash if I built rather than bought a production boat. I decided to go with a fairly [...]

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Last weekend I had the chance to sit down with fly fishing author Skip Morris in his home town on the Olympic Peninsula. Skip had just published a new fly pattern book with his wife Carol Ann, Trout Flies for Rivers, and we talked about the new book, fly tying and fly design.
Do you [...]

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The deadline looms for the Hareline Dubbin October Caddis fly tying contest. Turn in your patterns this week. Click here for contest details. Win some serious fly tying materials!

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After four days of intense searching, anchoring, casting, and rowing, a narrow window opened for us. All our efforts came to fruition in a couple of magic hours. My Dad had been casting spinners with growing precision, picking up one solid hook-up each day, along with a handful of nice cutthroat. His best fish, a [...]

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The fishing for summer steelhead on the McKenzie and Willamette has been outstanding. This is usually the most productive time of year, and with great fishing weather, prime water conditions, and light pressure, the bite has been excellent. I have been doing very well swinging various wet flies [...]

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My stomach is still reeling, jaw sore from clenching my teeth with anxiety. Happy to be home in Eugene, on dry land, never to set foot in Curley’s Fiberglass Pig #15 again.
I traveled north last weekend to the Strait of Juan de Fuca to fish out of a rented boat from the town of Sekiu [...]

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The Tungsten Ice Prince  nymph pattern has been a tremendous fish catching fly this late summer fall season. It  employs a Tungsten Bead and Hareline Dubbin’s best selling dubbing Ice Dub. It is a simple twist on a standard pattern that has been slaying fish for decades. Learn to tie it here.

Some fly patterns just nail the size relative [...]

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