Category Archives: Oregon Weekend Fishing Forecast

Sometimes fly rods catch limits too!

These guys put in a long day in the front of my boat last Saturday and came up big. The wild fish we encountered never left the water, while this brace of hatchery chromers met with the net just before … Continue reading

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Winter Steelhead Fish Porn

Jane Holloway caught this fish on the North Umpqua. Jane is so courteous she let husband Tom and son Clay fish through the camp water first. She then followed with one of Clay’s Intruders and stuck the fish above. Nice … Continue reading

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Central Oregon weekend fly fishing report

Deschutes River:Tom just got done fishing a week at Trout Creek to Maupin, very little surface action, but lots of big fish on golden stone nymphs and caddis pupa under a dropper, little green copper johns, possie bugger in size … Continue reading

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October Caddis hatch across Oregon — get on the water now

The October Caddis, Limnephilidae Dicosmoecoes, adults hatch in late fall, anywhere from late September to November in the Pacific Northwest. These large, orange caddis flies are approximately three centimeters long and provide too large a meal for big trout to … Continue reading

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Tracking the snowmelt blowout

There are several useful tools that can help an angler really see why this snow melt blowout is happening (besides all the snow of course) and understand when it will end. The Oregon State Marine Board maintains a page that shows how … Continue reading

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ODFW Stocking schedule for opening weekend in Willamette Zone

The pellet-heads are in! Per the ODFW recreation report, here is the trout stocking schedule for the McKenzie and Willamette River watersheds for opening weekend. -Blue River above Blue River Reservoir was stocked with 1,500 legal-sized rainbow trout this week. … Continue reading

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Weekend Fishing Forecast: Beware the Ides of March

The rain we needed to blow up the coastal rivers and bring the next and probably last really big push of native steelhead into the rivers arrived. Unfortunately, it came a little late in the week and Saturday is totally … Continue reading

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Oregon Weekend Fishing Forecast: Trout tomorrow, Steelhead Sunday

In a perfect world, we’d recommend trout fishing on Saturday and trying your hand on steelhead on Sunday. Here’s why: Rain is forecast and our coastal rivers are expected to rise fairly quickly presenting challenges for steelhead anglers of all … Continue reading

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