The Caddis Fly: Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

The 2010 Northwest Fly Tyer and Fly Fishing Expo is set for March 12-13, 2010 at the Linn County Fairground and Expo Center in Albany Oregon.
The NW Fly Tyer and Fishing Expo brings together the social network of fly fisherman throughout the Northwest, Northern California, and Idaho. Over 2,000 people attended last year’s Expo. The [...]

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Dave Hughes, co-author of Western Hatches, author of Trout Flies, and 20 other titles will be at The Caddis Fly on Feb 27th.

Dave will be putting on a workshop on the Elements of Fly Fishing For Trout from 9am-3pm for $50/person, 20 person maximum. From 4pm-5pm Dave will be doing a book signing and [...]

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Warning: This post contains a fairly graphic image.
This isn’t the post I wanted to write about this trip. I wanted to write a love song about a remote backcountry stream somewhere between northern California and southern British Columbia, a place that has never been logged, where the runs of salmon and steelhead of decades and [...]

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Jay Nicholas’s Marabou Simplicity is an easy-to-tie steelhead pattern for winter and summer fish. Jay demonstrates how to palmer marabou in this video and puts together a great pattern for swinging up big steelhead.

Jay’s Marabou Simplicity steelhead fly
Hook: TMC 7999 sizes 2-4
Thread: Lagartun x-strong 150 denier
Rib: Lagartun small oval silver tinsel
Body: Dubbed STS purple [...]

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As part of the 2010 trout stocking plan for the McKenzie, ODFW will open up an additional five miles of river to native fish management on the Lower McKenzie River. The McKenzie Flyfishers spearheaded a population study of the wild fish in that section to see how the natives bounce back now that stocking is [...]

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If winter steelheading is kicking your butt and you need some gratuitous action, Metalhead is just what the doctor ordered. The sickos who brought you the Trout Bum Diaries (New Zealand & Patagonia) and Fish Bum Diaries (Mongolia) have turned their lenses to British Coumbia. Based on the trailer we saw a the Drake Film [...]

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Jay Nicholas demonstrates his methods for building sink tips for his Skagit spey lines using bulk T-14. Building the loop-to-loop connectors can be tricky, and Jay shows you his method for securing loops.

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