This is the time of the year for the largest wild native steelhead to enter their natal streams, and with the right conditions, you can possibly rope into one. Whether you can land it or not, is another story, but it will haunt you regardless. Last Sunday, I was both blessed and haunted. Haunted because [...]
Spring Trout Fishing – McKenzie River
The McKenzie River has been fishing wonderfully this entire spring, and things are staying strong lately. Fishing has been fair to good with condition offering nymphing shallow and deep down, swinging wet flies in the film, and dead drifting dries at times. Many nice fish have been taken, and the best fishing has been from [...]
Nymphing Tips
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 [...]