I took a break from rod building today and ventured out on Whychus Creek below our house here in Sisters, Oregon. It’s about 400 feet down a steep canyon to get to the water, but rather than climb down the hillside from my house, I drove over to a nice trailhead on the other side of the creek just across from our house. It’s about a mile hike from the trailhead down a nice trail to the creek. This area get’s almost no people fishing these waters so I was pretty excited to see how I would do. The creek is a nice water level this time of the summer, and the water temperature was still nice and cool. Because it’s small water and quite overgrown with trees, I selected my 7′ 0″ 4 wt Signature Series bamboo fly rod for the day. Some of the smaller fish were willing to take dry flies but it wasn’t until I changed over to nymphs that I got into half a dozen nicer fish in the 11″ to 12″ range. I had the creek to myself and loved my time searching the creek for “fishy water”. And…I also donated quite a few flies in the tree branches along the stream edge. Here are a few photos of my morning adventure:
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Yesterday on the Middle Deschutes River
Mary Ann and I made it out to the Middle Deschutes River yesterday for a couple of hours to try our luck. The water levels have been quite high but they are starting to drop…yesterday was high, but fishable. Water clarity was good, but boy, the water temperature was very cold. We both tried EuroNymphing techniques to tempt the fish. Not much was hatching but we managed to pick up a few smaller browns on nymphs.
Fly Fishing the Fall River in Central Oregon.
Wow, it’s been a long time since my last blog post. It seems that spending time on some home repairs from a water heater leak, getting taxes ready, and high water everywhere have just kept us off the water. But, Mary Ann and I got out a few days ago to fish the Fall River here in Central Oregon. The Fall River is one of our local spring creeks that isn’t impacted much by snow runoff. I took out my 8′ 0″ 5 wt Spring Creek Series bamboo fly rod out for the day. I managed to pick up a few cooperative rainbows on nymphs in the morning and dries in in the afternoon when a decent BWO hatch happened. Here are a few photos of our day.
Christmas Ideas for Anglers from RiverKeeper Flies
My good friend, John Kreft, has a wonderful WEB page and blog dedicated to fly tying. He’s an awesome fly tier and has some great information, both historical and for tying, about flies and fly fishing. He recently posted a great blog entry about fly fishing items for the upcoming Christmas holidays. So, check out his latest post, as well as all the good content at:
http://www.johnkreft.com/2016-christmas-list-for-fly-fishers-and-fly-tyers/
Photoshoot on the Metolius River
I got the chance to spend a day on the Metolius River this week with Meryl Schenker (http://merylschenker.com/), a friend and an incredibly talented professional photographer from the Seattle area. I had asked Meryl to help me with some new photographs for my WEB site. We had a great time on the river, shot some great photos, and even caught some feisty rainbows. I have a goal to re-design my WEB site in the next couple of months, utilizing several of Meryl’s great photos. So stay tuned, hopefully I’ll be able to get that done. Here are a few photos from our day.