The Caddis Fly: Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Caddis Fly customer Tim Finlayson had a hell of a day on the Row River last week. After a slow day fishing the North Fork of the Middle Fork Willamette River, Finlayson headed back to Cottage Grove and fished in the campground area below the dam on the Row River. From Finlayson’s email:
I caught 4 […]

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Summer steelhead are in the Eugene town runs in both the Willamette and McKenzie River systems. Good numbers of fish are spread from Dexter dam down through town on the Willy, and anglers are finding fish from Leaburg dam downstream to Hayden Bridge on the Mac. Both swing and dead drift tactics should […]

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Last night I fished a short section of  the “town run” on the Willamette near Eugene. We knew the water was high but had seen the Willamette Falls fish passage counts and new there had to be a fish around. After basically giving up on one of the last tailouts of the evening I hooked […]

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Matt and I decided to skip the higher water on the Mckenzie on Sunday and head up to the Siletz river where the flows are more managable. The Siletz heads in some of the highest mountains in the Coast Range and hosts runs of spring and fall chinook and winter and summer steelhead.  The summer steelhead […]

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Steelhead had been passing Willamette Falls at a steady clip the last few weeks but the past few days have seen warmer temps on the lower Willamette that triggered the stampede.  The last three days of April saw 622 sea-run bows blow past the window bringing the summer steelhead to count to 1,968.  They are already here […]

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