The 2025 Casting for Recovery online auction will be held November 6 thru 16 and I’ve been busy tying flies which will be included in the auction. Proceeds benefit Casting for Recovery (CfR) and the Southern Oregon CfR retreat my wife leads. I tied 84 flies to fill this Fishe fly box. Here is a…
This happens every year to me, but October sneeks up so fast and I’m not ready for it! Besides Green Drakes this time of year, the month of October is synonomis with October Caddis and I’m seeing more of them flitting around the river. Are you ready for October Caddis on your favorite river? I’ve…
It feels good when I get to the river. It has a beauty I never get tired of. It’s the reason I live where I do. I try to capture the moment, whether as the sun begins to shine on the river, closeup images of insects, or the beautiful fish that swim in it. I…
What should we do on a warm summer evening? How about head to the river with popcorn and a beer to see if any fish are rising? We’d taken a few days off because of the forest fire around Sisters. Lots of homes were evacuated and the fire was stopped about 2 miles from town….
We’ve been home a couple of weeks from our recent fly fishing road trip. As you can tell from the image below, it didn’t end as we hoped. Turns out a fuel injector in our van needed to be replaced in Kemmerer, WY. It’s a longer story that I won’t bore you with, but we…
Fly fishing the Yellowstone River was the next stop on this year’s fly fishing road trip
Fly fishing the Madison River was the next stop on this year’s fly fishing road trip. I share our experience with the fish, bugs, and effective flies.
I hope you were able to read last week’s post about fly fishing the Upper Columbia River and catching trout with Green Drake dry flies. We are headed to Montana on this year’s fly fishing road trip and made brief stops along the way to enjoy fly fishing the Clark Fork and Beaverhead rivers. The…
Here is our recent experience fly fishing the Upper Columbia River at Black Bear Lodge. It’s a unique fishery, catching Rainbow trout in 100,000 cfs of water using dry flies!
I happened to see my first Salmonfly of the season recently on my home waters. This isn’t a huge hatch like other waters in Central Oregon or the rivers you fish. But the Metolius is known for a Golden Stone hatch in the upper river starting around the 4th of July. We have a trip…
