The Caddis Fly: Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Reports came in over the weekend, big schools of coho off of Newport. We’d already planned to head out for albacore and bluewater a bit further off, and thought coho would be a good fall back plan. It was.

After racing offshore early in the morning and finding the warmer bluewater had pushed a bit further off than [...]

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I was embarrassed to admit it, even to my closest friends. But I went back. Again. Two sunny, warm weeks since I had supposedly called it a season. But all it took was one enticing report from the Tillamook underground to rekindle the fire: “There are still a handful of fish in the bay, mostly [...]

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Spring-like weather might prolong the coastal spring chinook fishery for another week or two, but after the butt-kicking handed to me over the last couple of weeks, I’m crawling back in my hole for a month or two. My right wrist is shot to hell, and I’ve lost about 50% of the strength in my [...]

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Can it be wrong to be so passionate about salmon fishing that one would consider expanding one’s fleet of watercraft, simply to increase the options for catching an actual Chinook salmon by a factor of 0.00743, annually?
So, how many boats constitute a fleet anyway? I have owned five Koffler boats since about 1980.

Bruce, still [...]

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Those of us crazy enough to do this –silly pursuit – understand that we are doing far more than simply trying to catch an actual spring Chinook on a fly. Yes it can be done. Yes some people know how. Yes some people do it by accident. Yes, one can catch [...]

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Tillamook County dished out some super-mega-chromers last weekend.

My buddy Mariusz finally got to tangle with a coastal springer, after a couple of fishless attempts in past years. Just look at all those long-tailed sea lice! Tillamook’s rivers were still high enough for easy boating, and clearing up nicely. We shared the water with a [...]

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Some of you may have heard of Sneaky Pete.
Google searches are attempting to locate this character.
MyLife is sending Spam emails to Sneaky in order to steal his security codes for the restroom at Starbucks.
Well folks, here is a little story about Sneaky Pete. You may know the fella. He is not me. I [...]

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