This past weekend we fished the upper Mckenzie River from the Ranger Station to Ice Cap campground. It’s a high gradient stretch and above the best fishing on the river but Stansberry was adamant and wanted to “push his fat a&%& to the limits of what is reasonable, catch some wild trout and see the [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Hooks and Hiking: Weekend on the Mckenzie River Trail
Posted in Fishing, Fly Fishing, Outdoors, Trout on July 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Trout Fishing with Jaden: First Cast, First Rainbow Trout
Posted in Fishing, Outdoors, Trout on July 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s true . . . I took Jaden fishing and on his first cast he hooked up and landed his first rainbow trout. Now, I did have to tell him he had a fish on but it was his first one after all. He was pretty pleased:
We floated on the lower Mckenzie river and [...]
Honey Hole Revisited: Promised Trout Pics Delivered
Posted in Fishing, Fly Fishing, Outdoors, Trout on July 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I met Matt and Nick Callero of the National Wildlife Federation up on the Mckenzie for some fishing after work. They got there first and had caught a good amount of fish between them. Fortunately for me they haven’t fished that area as much as I have and had left the holy water alone. I [...]
UO Football Player Todd Doxey Drowns in the Mckenzie
Posted in Uncategorized on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The snarky tone of the post I wote recently wondering how so few cheat death on the Mckenzie feels in poor taste now that there has been an actual tragedy this summer. The Register Guard reports that University of Oregon football player Todd Doxey drowned in the Mckenzie river while on a inner tube trip [...]
Modest Hatch, Good Flyfishing on the Mid-Mckenzie
Posted in Fishing, Fly Fishing, Outdoors, Trout on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday evening I decided to go for a low key flyfishing trip at one of my sweet spots on the mid-Mckenzie river. The day was scorchingly hot but the area I planned to fish was in the shade when I arrived and the last of the splash and giggle crew (nothing wrong with that crew–in [...]
Evening on the lower Mckenzie: Furious Hatch, Fair Fishing
Posted in Fishing, Fly Fishing, Outdoors, Trout on July 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I met with Matt Stansberry of Upstream in Oregon and The Oregon Fly Fishing Blog fame and Mark to fish the lower Mckenzie on Friday evening. Mark is in town from Boston and this was his first trip on the storied Mckenzie river. I would have preferred to float higher in the watershed but it [...]
Sunday Float on the Mckenzie: How do so many cheat death?
Posted in Fishing, Fly Fishing, Outdoors, Trout on July 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This past weekend saw the first sustained mid-nineties temperatures of the summer and this brought people out in inflatable craft of all sorts. It begged the question I was asking myself all day, “how do so few people drown in local rivers?” Sure, there are a few every year but . . [...]
Summertime on the Middle Fork Willamette: Fully Committed to the Possie Bugger
Posted in Fishing, Fly Fishing, Outdoors, Trout on July 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Saturday I floated the Middle Fork Willamette from Oakridge at the Guard Rail launch to Black Canyon with my sister who sunned (read burned) herself in the 95 degree temperatures. The day started well enough with a few ten inch natives eating #8 Possie Buggers and #10 Prince nymphs in the first hole:
As the [...]
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