Category Archives: Fishing Reports

Labor Day report from Idaho’s Lost River Valley

A family tradition continued this Labor Day from Ketchum Idaho. Wagon Days, bike riding, fly fishing, and dining near Ketchum makes for a great weekend getaway.

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Time for Sea Run Cutthroat in Oregon

An early morning departure for chasing one of the great mystics of the fall; Sea Runs, blue backs, or harvest trout began this month. On the possibility of a cloudy morning, I headed off with great expectations of a solid … Continue reading

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Oregon Cascades Trout Part V: Why Trout, Why?

Why should anyone fish for trout anyway? Well, first, because we love to fish, that part is simple. But why should I or anyone with like-obsessions about giant anadromous fish care enough to pursue these relatively small fish?

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Fishing, Hunting, and Conservation News, October 1913 – Part II

These notes are from the Oregon Sportsman. …. on the coast streams, the trout now decline the fly because of the abundant store of salmon eggs, which are spawned by the Chinook and river salmon, now coming in abundantly. Salmon … Continue reading

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Fishing, Hunting, and Conservation News, October 1913 – Part I

These notes from the Oregon Sportsman. The time of the fly fisherman for the present year grows short, and after a few sharp frosts there will be no more of it. Then we must resort tot he winter lures – … Continue reading

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Get Extra Terrestrial: It’s hopper time

If you head up into the way backwoods of the Cascades and get close to the river and watch and listen to the hoppers springing out of the grass, you’ll hear the big trout smacking their lips. They’re huge, they’re … Continue reading

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Fly Fishing For Bass on the Willamette River

Bass fishing guide Larry Cross called the other day to invite me to come have a look at the Willamette River Bass fishery. I jumped at the chance exited to learn a new section of the Willamette. Larry suggested we … Continue reading

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Deschutes River Steelhead: Current Report and Looking Ahead

It’s shaping up to be a good steelhead year on the Deschutes. In the past week, 6,000 to 8,000 steelhead a day have been making their way over the Dalles Dam on average, for a total of over 170,000 already … Continue reading

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Rick and Sam’s River Crawl

We (Sam and Rick) set out to highlight the bounty of bank/wade fly fishing opportunities within a day’s drive of the Eugene area (and get on the blog without a boat :). The task was to catch and release fish … Continue reading

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More from Sneaky: Out to Sea on the Oregon Coast

Pull a little harder will ye! The coast is a plethora of action right now. Sea Runs are in and Fall Chinook to follow. Calm inland seas brings anglers to the very reliable inshore fishery.

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Sneaky Pete Checks in from the Coast

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Historical Perspectives on Oregon Fishing

Oregon Fishing Perspectives. Someone said, sometime, that an understanding of the challenges we face, the decisions we make each day, could surely benefit from understanding the perspective of people who have preceded us. Or something philosophical like that.

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Oregon Cascades Trout Part I: A Most Excellent Adventure Begins

I am NOT a stalker. Really. This seems an appropriate opening assertion for this article, given the fact that I just recently opened the Caddis Fly Blog to find that my most trusted and share everything friends RR and MS … Continue reading

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Trout perspectives

As a Midwest native, I came to trout fishing late in life. And had an idea that the craggier the water, the better the fishing opportunities. Broken, boulder-strewn, rapid filled stretches were easy to read — it limited where fish … Continue reading

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Rob puts on his troutin’ hat

Mark Twain was right — the clothes make the man. We floated through a jungle of Japanese Knotweed, ate a jack spring chinook cooked over a driftwood fire, and saw some football sized sea-run cutthroat. Good summer day on the … Continue reading

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