Lower Deschutes in the end of June 2010
Late Posting, but a fun time to relax in complete solitude with my dog Filbert. Just he and I, and literally one guy I talked to at the put in, and one boat passed me the whole time. Amazing for a stretch that gets heavily pounded during the [...]
This is the time of the year when it is super fun to wet wade in warm water and catch lots of smallmouth bass. This day was no exception for that case………
These fish will take anything from poppers on the surface to dropped nymphs through the water column.
The nymphing can be very successful with white [...]
It is almost time for summer steelhead in the Willamette Valley, and this year is shaping up to be a good one. As of the last few days of fish counting, the numbers of summer run steelhead have been the closest to the year of 2004, where the counts were some of the highest [...]
There are also two variables that I go by with my guiding and it has to do with dead drift skills for the individual angler.
If you are great at dead drifting, stack mending, and you can get get the longest flawless uninterupted dead drifts, then I try and use the lightest weight possible (meaning flies [...]
