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May Community Fly Fishing & Tying Night

Posted on May 14, 2025 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Everyone’s favorite night of the month is coming up next week. Community Fly Fishing & Tying Night is coming up next week at Falling Sky Brewing at 6:30! We’ve been having a great turnout and have seen lots of new … Continue reading →

Posted in Fly Tying, Fly Tying Materials and Supplies, Lower Willamette, McKenzie River, Uncategorized | Tagged auction, Event, falling, falling sky, fishing, fly fishing, McKenzie River, night, sky, Tying, tying night | Leave a comment

River Hazard Alert: Log Spanning the Mckenzie River in the Flat Below Bear Creek

Posted on May 2, 2025 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

A quick update on river conditions on the Mckenzie this weekend. Kyle Duke shared photos of the river below Bear Creek where a large tree fell and spans the entire river. To avoid the hazard, take out at Silver Creek. … Continue reading →

Posted in McKenzie River, Oregon Fly Fishing Tips, Oregon Weekend Fishing Forecast | Tagged condition, fishing, fly fishing, hazard, log, McKenzie River, River, update | 1 Comment

Fall River Update

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Snowmelt is a term that has whitewater kayakers excited, but many anglers dread hearing. Luckily, if you head up our two nearest highways heading East, both have spring fed systems that are open all year. The Metilous is larger and … Continue reading →

Posted in Central Oregon Fishing Report, Eastern Oregon, Fishing Porn, Fishing Reports, Uncategorized | Tagged fall, fall river, fishing, fishingn, or, redband, report, River, spring, spring creek | Leave a comment

Collection of March Brown Tying Tutorials

Posted on April 8, 2025 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Over the years, we have tied countless March Browns on the blog and YouTube for all of you guys. Below is a fully exhaustive list of all of the March Brown tutorials that we have tied to date. The videos … Continue reading →

Posted in Fly Tying, Fly Tying Materials and Supplies, Lower Willamette, McKenzie River, Middle Fork Willamette River fishing | Tagged brown, collection, Dry Fly, fishing, Fly, fly fishing, fly tying, Instructional, March, March Brown, McKenzie River, Middle fork Willamette River, pattern, spring, spring patterns, tutorials | Leave a comment

Kinky Muddler: Streamer Tying Tutorial

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

In this video Alex Swartz ties a killer Baja baitfish pattern. The Kinky muddler is a proven big fish fly. Its profile is suggestive of mullet and other baitfish. The fly is versatile and can be used for large predators … Continue reading →

Posted in Fly Tying, Oregon Saltwater Fishing, Saltwater Fly Fishing, Uncategorized | Tagged bait, big game, fish, fishing, Fly, fly fishing, Instructional, kinky, kinky muddler, muddler, predator, streamer, streamre, Tying | Leave a comment

Long Awaited Early Spring Fishing Report

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

This Spring especially has been a finicky one for all of the things out of our control. Torrential downpours, low elevation snow melt, surprise flow changes out of our dams, spurts of hot weather, etc. have thrown not only us … Continue reading →

Posted in Fishing Porn, Fishing Reports, Lower Willamette, McKenzie River, Middle Fork Willamette River fishing, Oregon Fly Fishing Tips, Proven Spring Fly Patterns | Tagged april, BWO, Dry Fly, fishing, fishing report, Fly, fly fishing, fly tying, Instructional, March Brown, McKenzie River, Middle fork Willamette River, runoff, salmonfly, spring, Tying | Leave a comment

Stillborn BWO Fly Tying Tutorial

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

In this video, Simon ties a fantastic CDC BWO pattern. Stillborn mayflies happen when there is an accident in the emergence. Generally this involves one of the wings touching the water when the insect is unfurling its new wings. When … Continue reading →

Posted in Central Oregon Fishing Report, Fly Tying, McKenzie River, Middle Fork Willamette River fishing, Uncategorized | Tagged Baetis, Blue, Blue winged olive, BWO, cripple, dry, Dry Fly, emerger, fishing, fly fishing, fly tying, Instructional, McKenzie River, Middle fork Willamette River, Olive, still, stillborn, wing, Winged | Leave a comment

Stillwater Options for Spring Runoff

Posted on March 15, 2025 by Caddisfly

We have a situation upon us that happens every year. You can almost set your watch to it. The rivers we know and love, ebb and flow this time of year, as water temperatures start an upward trend and fishing … Continue reading →

Posted in Fishing Reports, Oregon Fly Fishing Tips, Oregon Warmwater Fly Fishing, Oregon Weekend Fishing Forecast, Stillwater Fishing | Tagged april, BWO, Dry Fly, fishing, fishing report, McKenzie River, Middle fork Willamette River, runoff, salmonfly, spring | Leave a comment

Chironocandy Chironomid Stillwater Pattern

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

In this video, Simon ties a fantastic spring Chironomid pattern. Chironomids are a big deal early season in the stillwater game. Chironomids being the first big hatch of the year, the fish go absolutely nuts when it gets started. Effectively … Continue reading →

Posted in Eastern Oregon, Fly Tying, Oregon High Lakes, Stillwater Fishing | Tagged alpine, alpine lake, buzzer, chironomid, fishing, Fly, fly tying, high, lake, Nymph, stillwater, Tying | Leave a comment

March Tying & Community Night at Falling Sky Brewery

Posted on March 6, 2025 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

The last tying night had an awesome turn out. For everyone who showed up, thanks for making it an awesome night! We had plenty of people tying, but also had lots of people just drop in and hang out. If … Continue reading →

Posted in Fly Tying, Fly Tying Materials and Supplies, McKenzie River, Middle Fork Willamette River fishing, Uncategorized | Tagged community, Event, falling sky, fishing, Fly, fly tying, night, sky, Tying | Leave a comment

January Winter Steelhead Update

Posted on January 16, 2025 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Report: A few fish trickled in late November, early December but steelheading was slow overall due to low water and frigid conditions. The rain dances were heard and answered with an overcompensating vengeance. A lot of rain and milder temperatures … Continue reading →

Posted in Coastal Steelhead Fishing, Fishing Reports, North Umpqua River Fishing Reports, Oregon Coastal Fly Fishing, Oregon Winter Steelhead Fishing, Uncategorized | Tagged alsea, chrome, coast, fishing, fishing report, fly fishing, Oregon, pnw, report, spey, steel, Steelhead, swing, switch, umpqua, winter, winter steelhead | 4 Comments

Jigged Winter Stone Nymph

Posted on December 14, 2024 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Winter Stones aren’t the most famous Stonefly out there, but they are one of the ones most widely distributed across the country. The Winter Stone, Nemoura, Little Black Stone, Etc. refers to a family of small stoneflies with individual species … Continue reading →

Posted in Fly Tying, Fly Tying Materials and Supplies, McKenzie River, Middle Fork Willamette River fishing, Uncategorized | Tagged fishing, Fly, fly fishing, fly tying, Instructional, jig, little black stone, McKenzie River, Middle fork Willamette River, nemoura, Nymph, Stone, stonefly, Tying, willow, willow fly, winter, winter stone | Leave a comment

Simon’s Jigged Tailwater Leech

Posted on December 9, 2024 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

This fly Simon originally developed for a trip to the mighty McCloud river in Northern California. The section he was interested in is a tailwater, and Simon needed a small fly that would be enticing enough for a large fish … Continue reading →

Posted in Fly Tying Materials and Supplies, Lower Willamette, McKenzie River, Oregon High Lakes, Stillwater Fishing, Uncategorized | Tagged creek, fishing, Fly, fly fishing, fly tying, Instructional, jigged, leech, McKenzie River, rainbow, spring, tailwater, trout, Tying | Leave a comment

November Fishing Report

Posted on November 15, 2024 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Fall is here in full swing. For us here that means rain, and generally lots of it. The first atmospheric rivers of the year have brought substantial rains which have bumped river flows. Water levels fluctuate as rain comes and … Continue reading →

Posted in Fishing Reports, McKenzie River, Middle Fork Willamette River fishing, Uncategorized | Tagged Dry Fly, fall, fishing, fishing report, Fly, fly fishing, fly tying, McKenzie River, Middle fork Willamette River, november | Leave a comment

2024 IF4 International Fly Fishing Festival & Free Pre-Event

Posted on November 8, 2024 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Please join us at the Wildish Theatre on December 5th at 7pm for the 2024 IF4 International Fly Fishing Festival! Nine captivating short films produced by talented filmmakers across the globe will be shown. You’ll have the opportunity cast your … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged collaboartive, Event, ffc, film, fishing, Fly, flyfishing, showing, tour, upcoming | Leave a comment

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