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Category Archives: Oregon Fly Fishing Tips
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
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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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
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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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
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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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
Winter Steelhead Technique — Dead Drift fishing primer
I have this friend, see, who’s on the verge of committing to year-long, exclusive use of a fly rod. He loves to fly fish for trout. You should see his eyes sparkle when he talks about fly fishing for sea-run … Continue reading
Smoking Fish 101: Barrett’s Smoked Salmonids Recipe
Looking for something to do with those hatchery steelhead? Here is Barrett’s smoked fish recipe: Brine: 1/3 cup salt 1/3 cup brown sugar 6 cloves peeled garlic crushed 3 tbsp. ginger fresh grated Juice of one fair sized lime 3 … Continue reading
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