I got out with Mary Ann last week on my birthday for a little trout fishing here in Central Oregon. We hit the Crooked River about an hour from our house. It was a chilly 18 degrees when we left the house but by the time we got to the river it had warmed up to the mid 40’s. The whitefish were spawning in the river so a lot of fish were pretty active. We both picked up about 20 fish on small egg patterns using euronymphing techniques. We didn’t get anything large, but it was still pretty fun hitting the water with bamboo. Here are a couple of photos of our day.
Monthly Archives: November 2015
My Bamboo Switch Rod for Steelhead.
Mary Ann and I just got back from 3 days of camping on the Deschutes River in search of steelhead. We met up with a great group of folks and camped at a Rebar Campground. We had a wonderful time but the steelhead action was very slow. Among 12 accomplished steelheaders, only 2 steelhead were landed over 3 days…none by Mary Ann nor I. I took along my 10′ 6″ 5 wt Hollow Built Bamboo Switch Rod for the trip, and split my time between swinging hairwing streamers on sinking leaders and nymphing with large stonefly nymph immtations. I manged to pick up a handful of nice rainbows, two whitefish, and one very large sucker nymphing but had no success swinging. Overall, not great fishing success but we had a great time camping out with group. Here are a few photos of our trip: