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Category Archives: Oregon Salmon fly fishing
Estuary fly fishing for spring chinook
It’s nearly impossible to find good numbers of spring chinook without also finding lots of anglers. Salmon attract a lot of attention from all members of the food chain, from the cormorants and cutthroat that suck down fry, fingerlings and … Continue reading
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Weekend Fish Porn
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
Demand Wild Salmon From Your Sushi Bar, Please!
This juvenile chum salmon shows just one of the devastating problems created by salmon farms. Photo courtesy of salmonaresacred.org I’m willing to bet that the majority of our readers love sushi and sashimi. Am I right? What on earth is … Continue reading
Salmon Fisher’s Journal Field Observations: Stray hatchery fish
Salmon “home” right? They find their way back home to the river, tributary and maybe even the gravel bar where they were spawned. In the case of hatchery fish, they home to their release location, right? Well, yes and no. … Continue reading
Jay Nicholas’ Salmon Fisher’s Journal: Field Observations on Sea Lice
Sea Lice are a parasitic copepod, and when we see these on our salmon, steelhead or cutthroat we consider these an indication that they have not been in the river (out of the ocean) very long. Funny thing, though, I … Continue reading
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Jay Nicholas’ Salmon Fisher’s Journal: Great Grabs
October 28, 2008 — Ed and I were fishing the River Styx. A slow day, as far as fishing goes. Only a few Chinook were showing, no grabs, and now the tide had turned in, sweeping leaves, twigs, logs, lawn-clippings, … Continue reading
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Jay Nicholas’ Salmon Fisher’s Journal: Just another day on the Elk River
November 23, 2009 — It is barely light enough to see, and I am sitting in my drift boat anchored at the Hatchery launch site. I’m sitting here because I’m nervous about running the drop immediately below the tailout of … Continue reading
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Jay Nicholas’ Salmon fisher’s journal: Elk River 2009
Elk River, 2009 Saturday morning. Down the beach we went at daybreak – Bob, Ryan, and me. Paul and Jeff had abandoned us at the motel in the dark, sneaking away without even knocking on our door to see if … Continue reading
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ODFW YouTube channel documents record Oregon coho run
According to Tom Murtagh, ODFW distric District Fish Biologist: A significant proportion of the Willamette coho run has entered the Tualatin and is currently spawning throughout the basin, mostly above Hillsboro. Coho counts at the falls is just above 25,000 … Continue reading
Salmon Crazy: Elk and Sixes report — Barrett, Rob and Piper put the hammer down
I don’t know why I bother to set a 2 A.M. alarm when I have never been able to sleep the night before a south coast salmon fishing trip. After a late afternoon phone call from Greg Roberts confirming the … Continue reading
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Stormy weather brings hope to South Coast Anglers
It’s only mid week and the migration to the Southern Oregon Coast has begun. Elk, Sixes, Rogue, to name a few are staged to be in perfect shape for fly anglers to catch chrome bright Chinook Salmon. Bring your shooting … Continue reading
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Jay Nicholas’ salmon fishers journal: South Coast Kings
Day 4. Load- 4-Runner . Drive. Walk down beach in dark with Gordon. Difficult keeping up. Wade across river mouth. Start casting. Keep positive. Hope. High anticipation. Poor catch yesterday translates to fewer fishers today. Same guy fishing Skagit Compact … Continue reading
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Tillamook Salmon Report: Where have all the salmon gone?
“It’s been terrible,” Bob Rees confided, the wind buffeting his cell phone mouthpiece. “Been this way all season,” he added. Bob would know. He’s one of Tillamook’s most established guides, as well as being a vocal advocate for wild fish, … Continue reading
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Jay Nicholas: A salmon fishers journal
Introduction A Journal should begin at the beginning, I suppose. This Journal doesn’t, so the reader will need to figure out what comes first, what follows what, and sometimes, how everything is connected. I don’t keep a daily Journal. Some … Continue reading
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