Category Archives: Summer Steelhead

Jim Sens Green Butt Silver Hilton: Fly Tying Video

Jim Sens joins us back at Caddis Fly to tie up an effective summer steelhead pattern. Our guides and fellow steelhead enthusiasts all swear by this fly – it’s just one of those flies all steelhead fishers should have in … Continue reading

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Oregon Fall Steelhead 2022: New Lines and Best Flies

Cooler evenings and mornings have our thoughts focused on fall and steelhead. While we’re still below ten-year return averages in most of the rivers here in Oregon, we’re glad to see things bouncing back the way they are. It will … Continue reading

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2022 Columbia River Summer Steelhead Update

by David Moskowitz, Executive Director and John McMillan, Director of Science Overall, things are looking better than expected for wild summer steelhead in the Columbia River basin. Of course, we’re now entering the dry, hot slog of August and September. … Continue reading

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Oregon Set to Open The Summer Steelhead Season on the Deschutes

From Flylordsmag.com Will Poston Oregon’s Deschutes River will have a fishing season for summer steelhead this year, announced the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife (ODFW). The summer steelhead fishing season on the Deschutes will open on August 15th. Throughout … Continue reading

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First Annual Umpqua Bass Bash

Join us Saturday, July 16th, as Native Fish Society hosts our first annual Umpqua Bass Bash! This event, hosted on the mainstem Umpqua River, will help remove Smallmouth Bass from the river and bring awareness to the problems this invasive … Continue reading

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North Umpqua Wild Steelhead News

April 23rd -From the North Umpqua Coalition Oregon Steps Up Protections for Imperiled North Umpqua Summer Steelhead Hatchery program ended to aid recovery of iconic wild fish ASTORIA, Ore. – Today, after four hours of presentation, comment, and deliberation, the … Continue reading

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Post Cards Southern Oregon Fall 2021

Southern Oregon Fall 2021 -GN 2021

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Columbia & Snake River Wild Steelhead in Crisis

From The Conservation Angler Compelling commentary on the Columbia River’s Wild Steelhead Crisis from Rich Simms, co-founder of the Wild Steelhead Coalition. Read it HERE. Dean Finnerty, Director of Trout Unlimited’s Wild Steelheaders United! Read it HERE. Both organizations make … Continue reading

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Emergency fishing closures in Deschutes, other mid-Columbia tributaries begin Sept. 1 due to low steelhead returns

ODFW Press Release August 27, 2021 SALEM, Ore.—In response to extremely low returns to date of Columbia Basin upriver summer steelhead, ODFW is adopting additional emergency rules to increase protections for wild summer steelhead in certain Oregon Columbia River tributaries. … Continue reading

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Columbia Steelhead Crisis: What Needs to Happen

From Native Fish Society Click here to add your name to the letter below and join the groundswell of public support speaking up for Columbia Basin steelhead! Dear Governors Brown & Inslee and ODFW & WDFW Commission Members, To put … Continue reading

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Resisting the call of the Deschutes – Chris Santella

Our friend and favorite author Chris Santella had this opinion piece published in he Oregonian and Oregonlive.com recently. Every March, I begin looking forward to late summer afternoons at the mouth of the Deschutes River. The kaleidoscope of kite sails … Continue reading

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All things Spey Lines and Sink Tips – George Cook, Erik Johnson, John Hazlett

George Cook, Erik Johnson and John Hazlett have been innovators, instructors and anglers in the world of two handed rods since the beginning of the “Northwest Spey” movement. These guys have thousands of hours on the water testing line matches … Continue reading

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Native Fish Society ACTION ALERT: PROTECT DESCHUTES RIVER STEELHEAD

From Native Fish Society In the middle of another heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife shocked coldwater-fishery advocates by lifting Hoot Owl regulations on the Deschutes River between its mouth and Sherars Falls. Join … Continue reading

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Take Action to Keep Oregon’s Wild Fish Wild! – Speak out against HB 3150

From Native Fish Society Right now, Oregon’s state legislature is considering a bill, HB 3150, that will require ODFW to utilize hatch boxes in southern Oregon, a strategy that is ineffective at bolstering commercial and recreational fisheries and threatens the … Continue reading

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Trout Unlimited works with Companies like ours to Stand up for Wild Salmon

Take out the Lower Four! OregonFlyFishingBlog.com and Caddisflyshop.com are proud supporters of efforts to remove the four lower Snake River dams. Check out TU president Chris Wood’s article below. The tipping point for salmon and steelhead

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