The Caddis Fly: Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

We spent the day fly fishing Crane Prairie Monday this week with Caddis Fly employee Ty Holloway. Ty is recovering from a recent shoulder surgery and spends his days floating the stillwater until he’s recovered. But his sling didn’t stop him from outcasting and outfishing me one-handed, which was pretty embarrassing.

Blazing sun and little wind […]

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Caddis fly employee Ty Holloway spent yesterday at Crane. Despite recent shoulder surgery his hunt for big fish could not be disuaded.

He used Ice Cream Cone chironomids black with red rib size #10 under a small Thingamabobber indicator. Ty’s rig was a 9ft 3x full flourocarbon tapered leader plus 3ft of 3x flouro tippet […]

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My favorite time of year on the Deschutes is upon us. All day blizzard caddis hatches can create a scum of insects on the water that will make you want to clean your waders. Streamside vegetation can hold so many caddis during evening hours your lantern can be darkened with swarms of caddis. You begin to not care about […]

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The team at Spirit River Studios posted an awesome YouTube movie from the Deschutes River salmonfly hatch. Check it out below:

Spirit River also has a great coastal winter steelhead video on their site.

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The road to Gold lake remained closed this past week, yet anglers willing to walk in from the Waldo lake road have been having success. Chironomids, Mickey fins, and our new Thunder Creek streamers all in size #10 have been working well.
Hosmer Lake’s boat launch opened up this past week. Hosmer offers anglers an opportunity […]

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The Metolius River near Sisters offers great walk in access and is one of Oregon’s most beautiful fly fishing only streams. Green Drake Mayflies are hatching around 2pm. The often picky Metolius trout can “lose their heads” over this big mayfly. CD

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On June 9, 2008, Lou Verdugo, Caddis Shop employee, and a few of his friends were on the Deschutes River. They put in at Trout Creek and took out at Harpham Flat on June 13, 2008. The trip began around noon on Monday. In about 15 minutes the fishing was on! Fish were […]

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From an ODFW press release: 
Biologists from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will sample the Crooked River below Bowman Dam for redband trout and mountain whitefish beginning Monday, June 23 through Friday, June 27. Biologists will be electrofishing the river between Big Bend and Chimney Rock campgrounds and between Lower Palisades and Stillwater campgrounds. Fishing is […]

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Central Oregon Fly Fishing report from Brent Ross:
This past weekend I headed up to Little Lava and enjoyed great weather, but slow fishing. On Saturday morning there were numerous fish rising throughout the lake and thick midge hatches. Dark olive wooly buggers wind drifted and on a slow retrieve seemed to be key on Saturday, […]

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Outfitters returning from their three and four day trips this past week reported good to excellent fishing on the lower Deschutes. Cooler than normal weather conditions have the Salmon flies and Golden Stones present but less active. Short bursts of heat get them going, and the fish immediatly recognize the activity,  looking up on the surface, […]

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