The Caddis Fly: Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

A few shots from this weekends angling. Send us your favorite shot from Memorial Day Weekend and we will post it on OregonFlyFishingBlog.com this week. Send Photos to caddiseug@yahoo.com.
The coming weeks cloudy but warm weather sets up for outstanding fishing around the state. Salmon, Steelhead, Trout, Bass, Ling Cod you name it. June [...]

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Fly anglers have some decent weather coming for this three day holiday weekend. The following areas should bring good fishing:
Deschutes River: The stone fly hatch is well underway with bugs all the way to Trout Creek. Dry fly patterns working well have been the Clark Stone, Norm Woods, CDC Salmon Fly, Half [...]

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My bench isn’t normally this tidy. Don’t feel bad.
I’m almost embarrassed to admit just how long I used my old vise. About ten years ago I purchased one of those Umpqua Feather Merchants introduction to fly tying kits with everything you need to get started including a vise. It served [...]

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Captain Nate Stansberry’s Lingcod Clouser Minnow has accounted for some monster fish on the Oregon Coast. In this fly tying video, Nate shows you how to tie his version of Bob Clouser’s popular baitfish pattern. Nate uses materials and techniques to make the fly durable, and design elements to imitate a kelp greenling, the lingcod’s [...]

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This juvenile chum salmon shows just one of the devastating problems created by salmon farms. Photo courtesy of salmonaresacred.org

I’m willing to bet that the majority of our readers love sushi and sashimi. Am I right? What on earth is better than a slab of hamachi, maguro or sake (salmon) dipped in a slurry of wasabi [...]

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With so many beads, cones, and eyes on the market today it can be a challenge to determine what bead, x-eye cone, barbell etc.. goes with which hook size. In addition there are many eyes designed to take an adhesive eye/eye ball. What goes with what?
Of course some tiers/anglers want bigger beads on small hook [...]

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Perfect weather and decent hatches were the order of business on the McKenzie today. The weather stabilized, at least for a day, and the fish were ready to feed. Green Caddis were not out in big numbers but when the bugs were around fish noticed them. Many of todays biggest fish were males, could spawning [...]

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