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Entries Tagged as 'Oregon Salmon fly fishing'

Ocean coho fishing heats up on the Oregon Coast

August 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Oregon Salmon fly fishing · Oregon Saltwater Fishing

Is there a doctor in the house?

July 24th, 2010 · 8 Comments

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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Wrap it up: 2010 Coastal Spring Chinook Fishery Ends with a Grand Finale

July 8th, 2010 · 4 Comments

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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Koffler Boat Under Construction?

July 3rd, 2010 · 5 Comments

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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Fly Fishing for Spring Chinook in Oregon . . .

June 30th, 2010 · 7 Comments

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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Tangling with Coastal Spring Chinook

June 28th, 2010 · 3 Comments

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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Nicholas’ Fly Fishing Glossary: Sneaky Pete

June 25th, 2010 · 6 Comments

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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Tags: Fly Fishing Glossary · Oregon Salmon fly fishing