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I Just Love Fishing Central Oregon!

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Now that Mary Ann and I have moved into our new house in Sisters, Oregon, we’re getting the chance to get out on the local waters to fly fish.  There are just way too many places to fish around here…it’s hard to pick sometimes.  We got out the last two days on the Crooked River near Prineville.  The Crooked is a wonderful tail water fishery that offers great rainbow fishing with countless small mayfly and caddis hatches throughout the entire year.  But, I tried throwing a #8 Golden Stonefly Nymph (one of my favorite patterns) in the evening when the mayfly surface activity quit.  I’ll bet I was the only angler on the river using big stonefly nymphs because the river isn’t known for much if any large stonefly populations.  But, I hit paydirt and successfully landed about ten larger rainbows between 12″ and 17″.  Sometimes you really don’t need to “match the hatch”.  Here is one of the beautiful fish that took my stonefly nymph, and the pattern that worked:

A Crooked River Rainbow

A Crooked River Rainbow

#8 Golden Stonefly Nymph

#8 Golden Stonefly Nymph

A New Bamboo Fly Rod Fanatic

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I met a great angler, Blake, from central California last week and got the chance to introduce him to bamboo fly rods.  We spent the day fly fishing on the Middle Deschutes River about 12 miles from my house.  I set him up with a 7′  6″  medium action 5 wt rod that he fell in love with.  We got into quite  few rainbows and browns, and while they weren’t large, we had a wonderful time.  Needless to say, I’ll be building Blake a new Bamboo Fly Rod of his own in the upcoming months.  Here is Blake in the middle of a cast stalking some fish with dry flies, along with a typical brown that we caught.

A New Bamboo Angler on the Middle Deschutes River

A New Bamboo Angler on the Middle Deschutes River

A Middle Deschutes River Brown.

A Middle Deschutes River Brown.

Painting of one of my catches from this year!

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A few months ago I posted the following photo of a great cutthroat I caught on a small spring creek in central Idaho:

A Big Cutthroat That Rose to a Little Yellow Sally Dry Pattern.

A Big Cutthroat That Rose to a Little Yellow Sally Dry Pattern.

I didn’t realize it but this photo turned out to be inspiration for a great painting created by Larry Harris, a frequent follower of my BLOG.  Larry donated this painting to the Catskill Rodmakers Gathering Auction last month in New York.  As it turns out, Larry’s painting sold in the auction and helped raise money for the Catskill Fly Fishing Museum.  That’s pretty cool to see that and ‘Great Job’ to Larry.  Here is a photo of the painting Larry did, along with a great bamboo rod that Larry made himself:

Larry's Painting of my Cutthroat Trout.

Larry’s Painting of my Cutthroat Trout.

Northwest Fly Tyers Expo

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I’ve been busy getting ready for the Northwest Fly Tyer and Fly Fishing Expo (www.nwexpo.com) in Albany, Oregon this coming Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  I’ll be there in Booth #3 with my bamboo fly rods.  This is one of the largest fly tying/fishing shows on the west coast with great opportunities to learn about fly tying, take classes in fly fishing and casting, and visit with many equipment vendors and lodge/resort owners as well.  If you make it to the show, please stop by my booth.

Show Update:  It was a good show this year, although attendance was down a little.  I always enjoy this show because it’s in my home territory and I know so many folks here.  A lot of my good friends stopped by the booth and chatted.  Here I am at the show:

2014 NW Fly Tyers and Fly Fishing Expo.

2014 NW Fly Tyers and Fly Fishing Expo.

 

2014 Western Idaho Fly Fishing Expo

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Mary Ann and I just got back from Boise and the 2014 Western Idaho Fly Fishing Expo sponsored by the Boise Valley Fly Fishers.  We had a great time there and met a lot of great folks very interested in bamboo fly rods.  Here we are at our booth at the show:

Our booth at the 2014 Boise Fly Fishing Show

Our booth at the 2014 Western Idaho Fly Fishing Expo

Mary Ann also gave a casting demonstration on the do’s and don’ts of fly casting…with a bamboo rod!

Mary Ann giving a casting demonstration at the 2014 Western Idaho Fly Fishing Expo

Mary Ann giving a casting demonstration at the 2014 Western Idaho Fly Fishing Expo