I made a presentation earlier this year to a fly club about how to plan a Patagonia fly fishing trip and thought my readers on RiverKeeper Flies might be interested in the topic. I’m not an expert by any means, but have traveled to several lodges in northern, middle, and southern Patagonia over the last…
We arrived at Black Bear Lodge on Sunday afternoon, 6/22/26 and fished for three days, hoping we’d find Green Drakes on the Upper Columbia River just below the US/Canadian border. We left our home waters, the Metolius River hoping to find more Green Drakes. I hope you read the last post about Chasing the Green…
This year’s Green Drake hatch on the Metolius has really been hit or miss for us. Seems like it’s been like that for the last couple of years. That doesn’t mean we haven’t seen Drakes. We have, just not the numbers I recall. Chasing the Green Drake Mayfly hatch is one of my favorite of…
Wow, where does the time go? It’s been a couple of weeks since we were fly fishing the Lower Deschutes River from Warms Springs to Trout Creek. I thought this post would have been completed already, but I must have lost track of time. On to my report. We last fished the lower Deschutes in…
My regular readers know I’m mostly a dry fly fisher. I found a couple of trout rising regularly on my favorite river recently and struggled to find the right fly. I didn’t want to give up and move to a different location hoping to find more rising fish. As I tied on a fly, cast,…
We have plans in a couple of weeks to float the Lower Deschutes River from Warm Springs to Trout Creek. While I say Salmonfly hatch, we’re more likely to fish Golden Stone imitations as they’re the second major stonefly to hatch on the Deschutes at this time of year. I’ve been tying a lot of flies…
It was my privilege to volunteer as a river helper at the 2026 Southern Oregon Casting for Recovery Retreat at the Big K Ranch near Elkton, OR last weekend. Casting for Recovery (CfR) is a retreat designed to help women in various stages of breast cancer enrich their lives through fly fishing. My wife is…
Can you believe it’s almost May? I’m anticipating the hatch in the next few weeks as many insects begin their annual cycle. I’ve started to see a few PMDs on the river to go along with BWOs. It won’t be long before my favorite hatch of Green Drakes begin to hatch. How about Salmonflies and…
My friend Jeff Perin, owner of The Fly Fisher’s Place here in Sisters, OR, writes a terrific weekly fishing report and mentioned opening day is just around the corner. I’m somewhat spoiled because my home waters, the Metolius River is open year-round. But not every fly fisher is that lucky. But it got me wondering,…
I’ve spent time recently reviewing some of the posts from early years of RiverKeeper Flies. Turns out I’ve had a lot of content the past 12 years! One of the things I noticed are all the images of successful flies I’ve used and shared with you. You’ll notice a trend that I constantly use the…
