{"id":810,"date":"2014-10-12T16:45:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T16:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=810"},"modified":"2014-10-12T16:45:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T16:45:14","slug":"i-just-love-fishing-central-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=810","title":{"rendered":"I Just Love Fishing Central Oregon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Mary Ann and I have moved into our new house in Sisters, Oregon, we&#8217;re getting the chance to get out on the local waters to fly fish.\u00a0 There are just way too many places to fish around here&#8230;it&#8217;s hard to pick sometimes.\u00a0 We got out the last two days on the Crooked River near Prineville.\u00a0 The Crooked is a wonderful tail water fishery that offers great rainbow fishing with countless small mayfly and caddis hatches throughout the entire year.\u00a0 But, I tried throwing a #8 Golden Stonefly Nymph (one of my favorite patterns) in the evening when the mayfly surface activity quit.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll bet I was the only angler on the river using big stonefly nymphs because the river isn&#8217;t known for much if any large stonefly populations.\u00a0 But, I hit paydirt and successfully landed about ten\u00a0larger rainbows between 12&#8243; and 17&#8243;.\u00a0 Sometimes you really don&#8217;t need to &#8220;match the hatch&#8221;.\u00a0 Here is one of the beautiful fish that took my stonefly nymph, and the pattern that worked:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_811\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PA090031-580x460.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-811\" class=\"size-full wp-image-811\" src=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PA090031-580x460.jpg\" alt=\"A Crooked River Rainbow\" width=\"580\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PA090031-580x460.jpg 580w, https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PA090031-580x460-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Crooked River Rainbow<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_812\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PA110038-580x435.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-812\" class=\"size-full wp-image-812\" src=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PA110038-580x435.jpg\" alt=\"#8 Golden Stonefly Nymph\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PA110038-580x435.jpg 580w, https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PA110038-580x435-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">#8 Golden Stonefly Nymph<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Mary Ann and I have moved into our new house in Sisters, Oregon, we&#8217;re getting the chance to get out on the local waters to fly fish.\u00a0 There are just way too many places to fish around here&#8230;it&#8217;s &hellip; 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