The Caddis Fly: Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

It’s been a few years since we’ve had early spring weather and water conditions like we do right now. Both the McKenzie and Willamette Rivers are way down at “Summer Like” flows. Coastal rivers are in fine shape today and continue to drop. The current water conditions allow for amazing wading access to the McKenzie [...]

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Around 1pm yesterday I watched March Browns emerge and wondered if the days fishing wouldn’t of been better spent chasing trout. Oregon’s coastal waters get their March Brown two to three weeks before the hatch gets heavy on the McKenzie and Willamette. Hundreds and hundreds of casts and “nary a sniff” from the elusive “ironhead”. [...]

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Matt recently wrote of my bushy beard’s seemingly mythic power to bring steelhead to the boat this winter.  It had a good track record and  I went so far as to boast that it wasn’t going anywhere despite it’s potentially ruinous effects on my love life.  Fast forward to last week–the devastation wrought on my personal [...]

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The only thing I miss about being a student those many years ago are the vacations.   A couple weeks around Christmas, Spring Break-and don’t even get me started on the summer.   Now I  consider myself  lucky to have the week between Xmas and New Year’s.  I live for this week.  So when I saw the forecast, [...]

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Rob Lewis sends us this report from his fishing late this past week. We have a break in the wet weather.Look for coastal rivers to drop. Winter Steelhead conditions should be ideal this week.–CD
Hi Chris just a quick report! Fished the Alsea the 18th Friday. The day started out at Clemens park, we fsihed [...]

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Low clear water conditions coupled with the cold front have conspired to induce cabin fever at an almost unprecented level approaching pandemic stage among steelheaders in the northwest.   Despite scattered reports of a few fish caught here and there it just hasn’t been worth it to go out for a freezing skunking.  That’s the way I see [...]

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It doesn’t seem long ago that she was my little tag-along on fishing trips and I worried more about keeping her back from the bank then catching fish when we would hit the river.  We’ve taken lots of trout trips but I admit it, I’ve been greedy with my salmon and steelhead fishing.  The rivers [...]

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