Tag Archives: Oregon

Summer Gold

This summer has been pretty great. The shop’s been busy, the US killed it at the 2016 Rio Olympics, our Home Waters softball team won their summer league and Sunday fishing has been on the regular. Throughout the summer we’ve floated the McKenzie and Willamette multiple times, and there’s been a few trips down to […]

New water and new gear.

On Saturday night, another buddy of mine and I decided to head west super early the next day. Dawn patrol probably isn’t most people’s idea of a relaxing day-off (since there’s no sleeping late), but when winter steelheading is involved, things are different. We knew it was going to rain and rain it did. In […]

Winter time, solo trip, new water explorin’. Swingin’ flies, steelhead, nicely rewarded.

This year my winter steelheading goal was to explore rivers I had never fished and spots I had only been to a couple times. And Sunday was no exception. My early morning drive got me thinking about my game plan. The radar reports from the night before informed me I had at least 3 or […]

Sunday FUNday

On Sunday we fished around Oakridge. It was a beautiful, warm and sunny day, with a few scattered clouds.  Dry flies were on the menu all day. Olive Elk Hair Caddis, Green Elk Hair Caddis and March Brown Cripple, in that order, were the most productive. Not much of a hatch at all, really.  We […]