SANDY RIVER FLYFISHING PHOTOS

     

RIVER LEVELS IN OREGON

The Rivers around the Portland Area did not go up as much as other rivers especially the Southern Oregon Rivers.
The Sandy and Clackamas are up but still very fishable from what I thought was going to happen with this big storm we were suppose to get.
The Rogue is still at FLOOD STAGE and Peaked around 100,000 CFS.
The Lower Umpqua also hit 100,000 CFS, that is a lot of water.
Since we don't have much of a Snow pack on MT HOOD there is nothing to melt with the warm rain.
I cancelled some trips because of the forecast for rain and high water, just goes to show we have all this info at our finger tips and still can be wrong on predicting fishing conditions.

SWING THE FLY WINTER 2015

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ANOTHER GREAT ISSUE.

CAPTION CONTEST

                            What do 2 guides say to each other after landing a steelhead?
             The best Caption wins a dozen of my favorite trout patterns for the Deschutes River.
                                                                GOOD LUCK!

COLD WEATHER FISHING

Tough to cast when the guides are locked up with ice.

Was out on the Sandy River early last week in the frozen zone. Fishing was tough but we did at least
hook one fish. The water was probably 35 degrees in the morning.
The weather has changed now and hopefully the warmer weather will bring in some fresh fish.
If winter steelhead fishing was easy everyone would do it!!

DESCHUTES RIVER REPORT

White River Photo Taken on Oct 17th, 2012  8:30am

Well its been a while again since my last post, been busy guiding everyday
Fishing has been tough some days and good the next.
Now that White River is blown out big it might be a while until my next trip!
The river also came up with the White River to almost 7,000 cfs
I would guess it will be tough fishing until Halloween or first of November.

Native Fish Society Trip

August 1st -2nd this year Silvey's Flyfishing and John Hazel and Company did our Annual Donated trip on the Deschutes for steelhead  to raise money for the Native Fish Society.
Its a great event we have done for over 10yrs.
Thanks to everyone for coming to Help Native fish.
Paul got this Hatchery steelhead yesterday on the trip.

STEELHEAD POLL

                                                             WINTER STEELHEAD
                                                               SUMMER STEELHEAD

Since most of the rivers are once again to high to fish I wanted to see which would you prefer to fish for and catch.

I personally love to catch any steelhead on a fly but I think winter fish are on top of my list.

Winter Steelhead are usually bigger and a lot tougher with the changing water levels and water temps.

Here are the results of my poll out of 30 people

Summer Steelhead     2 votes

Winter Steelhead      18 votes

Any Steelhead you can catch 8 votes

Carp                            2 votes 

Thanks for voting !