Category Archives: Oregon Fly Fishing Tips

Reminder John Larison Winter Steelhead Fly Fishing Class Tonight

Sign up now for a winter steelhead fly fishing class with John Larison, January 3rd, 6:30 to 8:00pm. Cost of the Class is $30. Pre-pay at the shop, or at the door. The Class will be held at Oregon Electric … Continue reading

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Three Must-Have flies for Elk River……..

Anyone who is planning on fishing Elk River should have the three flies pictured above: non negotiable. By the way, if you haven’t heard, the Elk is “lit up” as you read this. Might be the best fishing in the … Continue reading

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Late Season Guide Trip Special Returns

Starting Oct 26th and ending Nov 30 The Caddis Fly Guide Service offers a late season Trout or Steelhead half day guide trip special. The trip will be 4-6 hours during the best time of the day for either Steelhead … Continue reading

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Oregon Cascade Trout Part IV: Fly Fishing Tactics

Ok. You’re in the Oregon Cascades. You are near a stream, river, rivulet, creek, or ditch. You need to figure out where to start fishing, right? Try the first bridge you come to. Trout always live under bridges. Next, look … Continue reading

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Oregon Cascades Trout Part III: The Flies Trout Love

Oregon Cascade trout flies. Simple, really. These trout eat about everything that we throw at trout, generally, and seasonally, in other rivers around the western United States. I just wanted to note some of my favorites with a few notes … Continue reading

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Fly Tying Thread Demystified, Part I.

We all have our preferences, it seems. I tied with Nymo for years and years, but this thread disappeared from the supply chain back in the 1980s. Danville 6/0 Flymaster then became my preferred thread for at least two decades; … Continue reading

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Ten Flies You Need in your Box this Fall

Some great fishing remains available this fall. Locally we have numerous trout and steelhead opportunities. The Deschutes, Umpqua, John Day and many other rivers in Oregon have some excellent fishing through November. What bugs should you have to attack the … Continue reading

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Fly fishing Oregon’s small streams

Our good pal David Vázquez has spent some time lately fly fishing Oregon’s small streams and wrote up this post for the blog. Our local small creeks can provide some wonderful fishing for wild rainbows and cutthroats this time of … Continue reading

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Tying Sea Run Cutthroat Flies

In this video Jay Nicholas sits down and discusses his favorite fly tying materials for Sea Run Cutthroat flies. Check out Jay’s Sea Run Cutthroat Fly Fishing Tips more information on how to fish these old school beauties. Another great … Continue reading

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Jay Nicholas dishes summer steelhead secret secrets for the Blogosphere.

It can seem confusing, at times, to understand the terminology associated with summer steelhead fishing technique. Knowing Jay Nicholas as a simple, straightforward, commonsense guy, I asked him to write a short piece about the various steelhead presentation styles we … Continue reading

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“Demystifying” Skagit and Scandi lines with Jay Nicholas

Line manufactures like Rio and Airflo have done a great job of creating excellent line systems to match a variety of casting styles and fly types. But there are a ton of line choices, questions and answers. Many answers are … Continue reading

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Late winter/early spring steelhead

The end of March is the time when people start to ask; are there many winter steelhead left? and when are the summer steelhead going to be in? The answer to the first question is, Yes! Although the major push … Continue reading

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How to make sink tips for Skagit spey lines

Jay Nicholas demonstrates his methods for building sink tips for his Skagit spey lines using bulk T-14. Building the loop-to-loop connectors can be tricky, and Jay shows you his method for securing loops.

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Jay Nicholas’ Fly Tying Tips Part 2: Securing dubbing loops, hand whip finishes

Fly tying tips: In this fly tying video, Jay Nicholas shows you a trick to tie off a dubbing loop, explains why you should pull-off excess lead instead of cutting it, and more.

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Primer: Swinging big nasty flies for winter steelhead

This is part two of Jay’s winter steelhead technique primer. Swing traditional and leech flies. Traditional steelhead patterns catch winter steelhead like they have for decades, so you don’t have to throw out your Green Butt Skunks, Polar Shrimps, or … Continue reading

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