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Owyhee River Browns

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I got the chance to fish the Owyhee River in Eastern Oregon earlier this week for a few days with our friends Noel and Sue from Australia.  Fishing was a little on the slow side but we still hooked into some nice Owyhee River Browns.  There weren’t a lot of hatches going on during the day, and most fish were picked up on small #20 zebra midges.  I used my 7′  6″  5 wt Freestone Series bamboo fly rod for the two days, which worked great.  I also used a 50″ furled leader from Mike Morin at http://www.cutthroatleader.com , and about 5 ft. of 6X tippet with the small nymphs.  Here are a couple of pictures of my time there:

Owyhee River Brown

Owyhee River Brown

Owyhee River Brown

Owyhee River Brown

Bamboo Rod Building Class Update

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I spent some time this week with Charlotte, my newest rod building class student.  She’s making great progress, and keeps proclaiming “This is way too much fun!”.  Here she is running bamboo strips through the Bellinger Hand Planers Friend.  Next up for her…straightening strips and starting the hand planing process.  Here is Charlotte in action:

Running the Bellinger Beveler

Running the Bellinger Beveler

A great photo from a customer.

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Eric Neufeld (http://www.facebook.com/ragingriversales) sent me this great photo of a cutthroat he recently caught with one of my bamboo fly rods….Eric owns two of them.  This beautiful cutthroat was caught on a 7′  0″  4 wt Spring Creek Series Rod I built for Eric a few years ago.  Photo credit goes to Heather Hodson.

A Great Cutthroat Trout

A Great Cutthroat Trout

Beautiful Deschutes River Rainbow

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Sometimes, the pictures just come out right, although I did a little cropping on this photo.  Here is a beautiful Deschutes River Redside I picked up a few days ago.  Enjoy!

Deschutes River Rainbow

Deschutes River Rainbow

Sharing my bamboo fly rods on the Metolius River

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I had a great time this week getting out with our friends from the Seattle area, Kelli and Russ, on the Metolius River.  After a couple of hours of fishing, I asked them if they wanted to try my bamboo fly rods for a bit of dry fly fishing….and got very quick “you bet” from both of them.  I put a 7′  6″  5 wt rod in each of their hands and we fished together for about 45 minutes.  Although the fish were very interested in our dry flies, we had a great time.  While I haven’t converted them over to bamboo just yet, they got a taste of what it’s like.  Here we are on the stream with our rods.

Kelli and Russ trying out my bamboo fly rods with me on the Metolius River

Kelli and Russ trying out my bamboo fly rods with me on the Metolius River