The Caddis Fly: Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

In these two videos, Barrett Christiansen shows you two variations of the classic salmon fly pattern, the Comet. These flies have accounted for a lot of fall chinook salmon over the decades and are probably the best all-around pattern for fly fishing Pacific salmon.

The two videos show the standard comet and a low-water version. [...]

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As many of you are aware, Montana was once a hatchery-addicted state, and moved to wild fish management decades ago. From the recent book, Saving Homewaters:
Montana fisheries managers also realized early on that put-and-take trout planting hurts native fish: Every river has a limited amount of energy it can produce in the form of [...]

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Right now the South Coast Salmon fishery is best described as “A Fishery of Two Thousand Casts”. There are a few fish being caught and we saw some decent pods of Chinook moving, rolling, swimming, splashing and mostly not biting in the lower river. To sum it up we logged 24 hours of fishing between [...]

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Thanks to everybody who’s been commenting and following along with our public relations campaign to reduce or remove hatchery trout from the McKenzie River. But ODFW decisions are made based on data, and the agency this summer conducted an angler preference survey to see if people would rather catch wild or hatchery trout.
The majority [...]

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This is the fifth installment of The Fly Fishers Glossary: Snippets From the Underbelly of Fly Fishing, Fly Tying, Fish Biology, Dusty old Facts, Hallucinations, and the Plain Truth as I know it, by Jay Nicholas.
Bug Net
Now here is a wonder to behold. Take a really dorky looking hat, string mosquito netting around [...]

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Following our initial call on September 17th in the Register-Guard to remove or at least reduce the number of hatchery trout in the McKenzie, the McKenzie River Guides Association responded with its counterargument.
Today, David Vázquez and Scott Kinney blew that counterargument out of the water with Hatchery trout have their place, just not in [...]

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Right now is my favorite time of the year to be on the Deschutes. You probably thought it was getting to be a bit late for Lower Deschutes steelhead didn’t you? Well so did everyone else, which leaves the lower section of river pretty much void of fisherman and still full of fresh steelhead. The [...]

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