I stopped by Shears Falls Sunday evening for about a half hour. In that time I was fortunate to see the first adult Sockeye caught at the fish trap this year!!! They are getting a little more color to them at this point. It is illegal to keep a Sockeye...
Numbers of steelhead both hatchery and wild are starting to climb on the Columbia River as they head for the Deschutes River. Water temperatures at the Dalles Dam on the Columbia are around 65 degrees. Water temperatures on the Deschutes near Madras are closer to 57 degrees. This cool water...
The Clackamas River is now dropping into summer levels. Summer steelhead are spread through the system and are available to the early rising angler. Best timing for fishing is to be up at the crack of dawn. Swung flies on a floating line are the standard now. Standard patterns such...
The lower Deschutes River is perhaps one of the very best steelhead fisheries available to fly fishers in the entire western United States. Columbia River which cuts a line between Washington and Oregon is the river highway for summer steelies going to eastern Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Most years over...
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