The Caddis Fly: Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Matt and I decided to skip the higher water on the Mckenzie on Sunday and head up to the Siletz river where the flows are more managable. The Siletz heads in some of the highest mountains in the Coast Range and hosts runs of spring and fall chinook and winter and summer steelhead.  The summer steelhead […]

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Mikey Wier of SoulFish fame is working hard to catch some wild Oregon winter steelhead. In this blog post from The Cleanest Line, Wier tells the tale of hiking into the Kalmiopsis Wilderness to fish the headwaters of either the Chetco or Illinois River. From Wier’s post:
After post holing through the snow, climbing over trees […]

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Last weekend Eugene TU Chapter VP Todd Mullen and I braved snowy weather to get into the last days of the winter steelhead fishing on a coastal wilderness stream. Almost all of the fish were way up in the system and we didn’t spot any steelhead on this particular outing. Luckily, the native coastal trout […]

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Today, the Siuslaw is at an excellent level for fly fishing. The river is at 5.11 and holding fairly steady. While this is a little low for the Whitaker Creek area, that level does present good wading opportunities and also allows your fly to easily get in the strike zone.  A level like that also eases pressure […]

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We lucked into a dropping river with moving fish. Add in some decent weather and you have great timing in the winter steelhead game. If only all the days could be as good.

This weeks rain should bring another burst of fish and another chance to have some winter steelhead success.

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The same water that has been yielding good catches of native steelhead turned stingy yesterday. After the Oregon Fly Fishing Blog crew landed 11 steelhead last week I was skunked yesterday. I watched one timid steelhead strike short and that was the extent of the action. The coastal rivers are just skin […]

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Oregon’s coastal winter steelhead rivers continue to be in great shape. Last week’s rain pushed more fish into the systems and the quick drop in water levels has them kegged up in the obvious spots. Glo-Bugs fished under a Thingamabobber indicator are catching fish. We’ve been seeing mostly hens. A big run of bucks is […]

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Just a little disclaimer on our Oregon Coastal Stream reports: These waters aren’t big enough for publicized fishing pressure, so they will remain anonymous. Just assume that conditions and stories will be similar wherever your secret coastal stream may be.

The wild steelhead are in the streams. We managed to have a really good day last […]

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