Category Archives: McKenzie River

Rivers will fall….be ready!

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Caddisfly

Patience is the key for anglers the past few days. Mother nature was pouring it on literally all over the Northwest the past few days. Rivers have risen to new highs but the near term forecast shows warm days a … Continue reading →

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Double Dip Float on the McKenzie River

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Caddis Fly employee Jason Cichy describes a recent trip on the McKenzie. How lucky we are to be able to so comfortably put the boat in on numerous sections of the McKenzie. In Jason’s case twice in one day! Before … Continue reading →

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Plenty of Water in the Willamette Valley

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Remember this March and April when the March Browns and Blue Winged Olives were hatching and the lower McKenzie was low and clear. The Middle Fork of the Willamette flowing out of Hills Creek Dam was running at around 400 … Continue reading →

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Weekend Fish Porn

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

A few shots from this weekends angling. Send us your favorite shot from Memorial Day Weekend and we will post it on OregonFlyFishingBlog.com this week. Send Photos to caddiseug@yahoo.com. The coming weeks cloudy but warm weather sets up for outstanding … Continue reading →

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Lower McKenzie Continues to Produce Excellent Fishing

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Perfect weather and decent hatches were the order of business on the McKenzie today. The weather stabilized, at least for a day, and the fish were ready to feed. Green Caddis were not out in big numbers but when the … Continue reading →

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Weather and water moving through the Willamette Valley.

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Despite local weather conditions being nasty to say the least, trout fishing has been holding up nicely both on the upper and lower Mckenzie. In addition the Middle Fork of the Willamette near Oakridge has been seeing some decent green … Continue reading →

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Steelhead Continue to move into the Willamette Valley

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Steelhead fishing in the valley continues to get better.  Each day it is a little easier to get up at 4:30 am. Although, I can’t figure out why I continue to get up this early, most of the fish I … Continue reading →

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CDC Pale Morning Dun Hair Wing Tying Video

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Pale Morning Dun mayflies become an important insect to the angler interested in “matching the hatch” over the next few months. PMD’s as they are generally known can emerge at any time of the day. On the lower McKenzie anglers … Continue reading →

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Hatch report for McKenzie River and Middle Fork of the Willamette

Posted on May 8, 2010 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

AHH. My favorite time of the year to trout fish is here in the Willamette Valley. Warmer, longer days, a little clearer skies, and of course the mighty McKenzie Green Caddis. If you have never experience this hatch, or it … Continue reading →

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Tying the UV Chewee Skin Mini Stone

Posted on May 6, 2010 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

This spring we have been playing with UV materials in our fly patterns quite a bit. The UV Cahill fished very nicely this spring and a scaled back “creamier one” is bound to kill during the PMD hatch coming on … Continue reading →

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Eugene area Summer Steelhead Report

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Early summer steelhead fishing has been a hit or miss game in our local rivers. Water levels are a bit up, but the clarity in the Willamette and McKenzie is fine. We have been floating a couple times a week … Continue reading →

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Tony’s Purple Tube Leech: Steelhead fly tying video

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

In this video Tony Torrence ties a killer tube leech that gets down, swims, and pisses off awaiting anadromous fish. Tony uses HMH and Eumer tubing to create the fly. In addition he adds a Eumer Monster Cone to aid … Continue reading →

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May McKenzie River Report: river shaping up nicely

Posted on May 1, 2010 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

This week on the McKenzie was wet, cold, and pretty good all things considered. High water and “squally weather”  made for very light pressure on the river. This weekend and coming week we are headed into “Prime Time” as a … Continue reading →

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Tony’s Temple Tube Fly Tying Video

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

In this video Tony Torrence demonstrates how to tie his version of a Temple Dog style fly on a tube. By inserting a small HMH Tube into a medium Eumer plastic tube the tier has a built in junction tube … Continue reading →

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Upper McKenzie River fishing report: Trout are hungry

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Rick Allen just sent in these photos from a trip above Blue River with Matt O’Neal. Big black stoneflies were particularly hot with small caddis around as well. Matt and Rick got into several gorgeous wild trout.

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