Posted in Fishing, Fly Fishing, Trout on April 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Forget daffodils, budding and flowering trees, March Browns, sunny days, big heavy downpours or runny noses. Don’t even think about Pawtucket Phil. The surest sign that spring has arrived in the southern Willamette Valley is that Shelly is in my driftboat:
There you have it folks. Conclusive evidence that it is spring.
We fished (I fished she [...]
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Posted in Fly Fishing, Trout on April 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Middle Fork Willamette fished pretty well this weeked considering the adverse conditions, big pushy off-color water. The heat was melting snow and the free-flowing North Fork was pumping water into the system, more and more as the day went on. We put in at the lower end of Oakridge, the first put in upstream of the [...]
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