Monthly Archives: May 2010

Weekend Fish Porn

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Fishing Porn, McKenzie River, Oregon Salmon fly fishing, Oregon Saltwater Fishing | 8 Comments

Memorial Day Weekend Opportunities

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Central Oregon Fishing Report, Fishing Reports, Lower Willamette, McKenzie River, Middle Fork Willamette River fishing | 3 Comments

Gear Review: Dyna-King Trekker

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 … Continue reading

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Fly Tying video: Captain Nate’s Lingcod Clouser Minnow

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Fly Tying, Oregon Saltwater Fishing | 6 Comments

Demand Wild Salmon From Your Sushi Bar, Please!

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Oregon Conservation News, Oregon Salmon fly fishing | 2 Comments

Hook Size to Bead Size

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 … Continue reading

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Lower McKenzie Continues to Produce Excellent Fishing

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 … Continue reading

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Pike fly patterns: Fly tying videos before the Canada trip

My brother Nate and I have been fly fishing for Northern Pike for about half our lives, over three decades collectively. These are the patterns I use to chase them. The first pike fly pattern, The Carpet Muncher, is Nate’s … Continue reading

Posted in Fly Fishing Travel, Fly Tying | 4 Comments

Lend a hand for Wild Fish on the Pere Marquette

Our pal Matt Dunn from Fish Beer and Third Coast Fly is looking for some help protecting the Pere Marquette, a Great Lakes trib with amazing fish potential. The PM is home to non-native, but wild reproducing steelhead, salmon and … Continue reading

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The Front Line of Rio Trout Fly Lines

Years ago there were only a few choices of floating fly lines. The Peach 444 or Mint Green 444SL from Cortland and the Air Cel from Scientific Anglers. Today there are numerous companies making a huge variety of floating trout … Continue reading

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Fly fishing NYC: Hot bite in the big city

I spent the last week in NYC on business, but managed to get out for a couple days fishing with some good friends. The first day we chased stripers with Capt. Ken Jones, out of Gateway Marina in Brooklyn. We … Continue reading

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Summer Steelhead on the Oregon Coast

It’s been a wild spring for this chinook bum, quite literally. The only two chinook I’ve seen were both McKenzie River natives, and they put on quite a show. But mostly I’ve had a spring full of unicorn hunts, swinging … Continue reading

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Weather and water moving through the Willamette Valley.

Despite local weather conditions being nasty to say the least, trout fishing has been holding up nicely both on the upper and lower Mckenzie. In addition the Middle Fork of the Willamette near Oakridge has been seeing some decent green … Continue reading

Posted in Fishing Reports, Lower Willamette, McKenzie River, Middle Fork Willamette River fishing | 2 Comments

Need a new Lake Fly Line?

George Cook of Sage, Rio, Redington stopped by the shop the other day. I wanted to get his take on the Rio Outbound fly line for lake use. Check out this short video discussion of the Rio Outbound and it’s … Continue reading

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Feels like summer!

With less than two weeks until the ocean salmon season it sure feels like summer! The rock fish are running wild and the big lings are still around… I will keep it short and too the point and leave you … Continue reading

Posted in Fishing Porn, Fishing Reports, Oregon Saltwater Fishing, Uncategorized | 6 Comments