The Caddis Fly: Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

This leech fly is a versatile pattern for fishing Oregon’s High Lakes. You only want enough lead to sink the fly slowly, so you can retrieve it at a crawl. The variegated materials give an illusion of segmentation, and movement, which can be important. A fly that can suspend, but still look like it’s moving [...]

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Diamond Lake
Fishing on Diamond has finally picked up, lots of bugs coming off from Damsels to callibaetis. The biggest mistake an angler could make is trying to match the hatch. The fish only seem to be interested in black mini leeches and chironomids. A damsel nymph may also be productive. Concentrate your efforts in the [...]

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Caddis Fly employee Clay Holloway has had two good weekends fishing Diamond Lake in a row. Water temperature yesterday was 60 degrees. Clay said they caught fish on sparse bodied chironomids in bronze and burgundy, tied with midge-bodi by Spirit River.

The fish averaged 15 but a few were larger. Minileeches were also producing, tied [...]

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Busy day out on Crane Prairie yesterday, but worth fishing for sure. We stayed near the Quinn side of the reservoir, fishing the edges of the channels. The fishing was best early morning — and the crowds were thinner. We tried slow stripping leeches on sinking lines, but all of our success came on chironomids [...]

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Two fly winner Clifton Molatore was at Daimond Lake this weekend and had the following report. Thanks Clifton, keep them coming.
I fished Diamond Lake Friday evening with my father and four year old daughter. We started fishing about 4:30 p.m. and fished until about 8:00 p.m. We trolled brown bead head woolly buggers with a [...]

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This past week Barrett, Matt Sigmeund and Don Piper made a trip up to Davis Lake in search of cascade lake large mouth bass. Fishing was decent but things should heat up in the coming weeks. Early morning was best, as the sun and wind picked up the fishing slowed.

Barrett and Matt used floating lines [...]

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What would drive a man to drag his pregnant wife out into the Three Sisters Wilderness through ankle deep snow last weekend?

I’d heard rumors of giant brown trout in Linton Lake, fish with heads large enough to look like they belong on a golden retriever. I was told I’d see them finning in the [...]

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