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Archive for July, 2009

If you are like me, you like to geek out on fish population data, spawning escapement estimates and all of that good stuff. If you like to do this, you probably know how hard it is to find the information you crave. One of the best sources is ODFW’s data clearinghouse where you [...]

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I didn’t get skunked–let’s get that out of the way but I didn’t exactly light the river up either.
I fished the Middle Fork Willamette near Oakridge this past Saturday evening. At about 7:00 there were fair amounts of caddis coming off and the fish were eating those sparingly. The real hatch [...]

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This past Saturday, I fished with one of my oldest friends and politico Jonathon Manton. We used to fish together a couple times a week but since his move to Salem and then Bend, we haven’t been out much and it was great to fish with my erstwhile partner in crime–reliving through the retelling [...]

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This past Thursday (6/9) I fished with two fine anglers who had purchased the trip in the last Trout Unlimited auction on the Middle Fork of the Willamette River from Oakridge to Black Canyon. Thanks for your generous support of Trout Unlimited’s conservation activities guys!
The river is low and it was a [...]

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As many of you know, I also write for the Oregon Fly Fishing blog–one of nation’s top fly fishing blogs in terms of traffic and the very best in content. I might be a wee bit biased. Recently, I made my tying debut demonstrating how to tie a Light Cahill dry. It [...]

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We adults tend to get caught up in our real life worries.  It was great to take the kids out over the holiday weekend and see how excited they got over some planter trout.  Not that I’m advocating for planters . . . at least we eliminated some of them this past weekend. Anyway, [...]

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