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Fly fishing Oregon’s small streams

August 9th, 2010 · 6 Comments

Our good pal David Vázquez has spent some time lately fly fishing Oregon’s small streams and wrote up this post for the blog.
Our local small creeks can provide some wonderful fishing for wild rainbows and cutthroats this time of year. Fishing small creeks isn’t necessarily about catching big fish–although large fish are often present. [...]

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Tying Sea Run Cutthroat Flies

August 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments

In this video Jay Nicholas sits down and discusses his favorite fly tying materials for Sea Run Cutthroat flies. Check out Jay’s Sea Run Cutthroat Fly Fishing Tips more information on how to fish these old school beauties. Another great reference on Sea Run Cutthroat is Les Johnson’s book: Fly Fishing Coast Cutthroat Trout.–CD

Winging Materials, [...]

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Jay Nicholas dishes summer steelhead secret secrets for the Blogosphere.

July 6th, 2010 · 3 Comments

It can seem confusing, at times, to understand the terminology associated with summer steelhead fishing technique. Knowing Jay Nicholas as a simple, straightforward, commonsense guy, I asked him to write a short piece about the various steelhead presentation styles we often refer to. Uh oh. Be careful what you ask for. [...]

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“Demystifying” Skagit and Scandi lines with Jay Nicholas

April 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments

Line manufactures like Rio and Airflo have done a great job of creating excellent line systems to match a variety of casting styles and fly types. But there are a ton of line choices, questions and answers. Many answers are correct, and in the end it often depends upon the fly and water type you [...]

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Late winter/early spring steelhead

March 21st, 2010 · 5 Comments

The end of March is the time when people start to ask; are there many winter steelhead left? and when are the summer steelhead going to be in?
The answer to the first question is, Yes! Although the major push of winter steelhead is over in most rivers, there are still rivers holding steelhead, [...]

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Tags: Fishing Reports · Lower Willamette · North Umpqua River Fishing Reports · Oregon Fly Fishing Tips · Oregon Winter Steelhead Fishing · Summer Steelhead · Winter steelhead

How to make sink tips for Skagit spey lines

February 23rd, 2010 · 4 Comments

Jay Nicholas demonstrates his methods for building sink tips for his Skagit spey lines using bulk T-14. Building the loop-to-loop connectors can be tricky, and Jay shows you his method for securing loops.

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Jay Nicholas’ Fly Tying Tips Part 2: Securing dubbing loops, hand whip finishes

February 16th, 2010 · No Comments

Fly tying tips: In this fly tying video, Jay Nicholas shows you a trick to tie off a dubbing loop, explains why you should pull-off excess lead instead of cutting it, and more.

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