The Caddis Fly: Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

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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Here’s the last of the fish porn from my Canada trip. We caught these brookies on a little hike-in lake in NW Ontario. It’s in a roadless area, so you have to fly in or park your boat at the trailhead and hike in. Mar Mac lodge operates the lake and keeps a little aluminum […]

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Here’s a short video montage of the fly fishing for Pike madness at Lake Esnagi. There is talk about puttting a pike trip together for ‘09 out of the shop, so if you are interested in getting on board, let us know. -MS

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Neal Galligan sets the bar at 17-inches in the Caddis Fly’s Mckenzie/ Middle Fork Willamette Big Resident Rainbow Competition! Neal’s son Chris,who was visiting from Phoenix Arizona, caught this Rainbow using Neal’s own version of a Maga Prince fly on the Lower McKenzie on Monday, 6/9/08.

Strong work Galligans. Thanks for getting the ball rolling. -MS

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Earlier this month, we got an email from Pete, one of the Caddis Fly’s customers, about an awesome fish story. Check out the email, pasted below with a photo.
Hey guys, my name is Pete C. and I’m a regular customer at the Caddis Fly in Eugene for the last eight years. I just wanted to […]

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Last weekend I got out with a couple buds from the Target Global Warming campaign, and we put the hurt on some Columbia River Spring Chinook Salmon with Guide Bob Rees. The mostly hatchery-based springer run is off the hook this year, and will likely be Oregon fishermen’s best bet for salmon in 2008 with […]

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Earlier this year, Mikey Wier and his crew launched Soulfish, a new angling adventure video. You may have seen Mike in the Angling Exploration Group’s Trout Bum Diaries Patagonia video from a few years ago. If you’ve seen that, you know he can fish — and he does it again here: fighting Mongolian taimen […]

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Name: Bunny
Hometown: Reedsport, OR
Born: 5/4/03

Likes: Long runs, Pacific Currents, salmon carcasses.
Dislikes: Clear cuts, dams, skinny hatchery hens.
In search of: Committment and a good presentation.

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Once again the “lowly glowly” (lead eyed egg) coupled with a “Thingamabobber” does it’s damage to wild winter run steelhead. Low water makes these fish a bit vulnerable to the angler willing to search out a lesser known steelhead run. The good thing about the fish we caught and spotted was they were not on […]

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