Oregon fishing and BS

Just wanting to start something for the Oregon people to share fishing info and maybe some fishing meetups.

trout, salmon, bass, and other fish it doesn’t matter!

Also BS a little about fish stories and the good/bad of ODFW

 

Hell yeah.

My only gripe with ODFW has been that the warden I dealt with didn't recognize my eTag as valid but when his supervisor showed, it suddenly was valid.

 

I took a screen shot of my tag for that very reason.

 

Anyone jumping on early winter steelhead? I was going to try Siuslaw this Sunday. It's going to be a little off-color and the fishing has been pretty slow I guess so it'll be more of a scouting trip. I've got an extra seat if you've got rain gear.

 

Would take you up on the offer but I cant get my license/tags for a couple more weeks

 

They're expensive as hell! Was $99 for tag, license, and endorsement this year. Just let me know and we'll watch the river levels. So far the levels just haven't been right on any river. Either way too low or blown out.

 

99 isn’t so bad... I’m looking at over 190 for all my tags and licenses and stuff haha

 

Yeah $196 for the Sports Pac. Usually every year I just buy my fishing license, tag, and endorsement on the 1st and then wait til I have to apply for my hunts to buy the Sports Pac. They refund you the difference if what you've already bought is included in the Sports Pac.

 

That’s good to know.... But I also have kayaks to get tagged also.... bullshit if you ask me... but at least I dont have to take my inflatable pontoon boat..

 

Anyone in central Oregon fly fish?? I got some questions of you do!

 

Tying flies as we speak. What do you need to know?

 

heading over to the Fall River/Wikiup/Craine prairie area in two weeks. What’s some tips or tricks over there? what are they hitting on? Any areas/spots we should try?
I use to fly fish in my early 20’s and then lost interest for 15 years until last year. Now me and 3 buddies are heading over 19-24th for some fishing and camping.

 

Are you planning on fishing the lakes? Or rivers. It’d be two different methods depending on where you want to go and I’m a river guy. For that area this time of year you can expect a ton of caddis and moderate amounts of stoneflies. In central Oregon the secret sauce is a fly called the Possie Bugger. Basically the #1 attractor fly in the warmer months. Your second fly can be whatever nymph you have in your box that matches the naturals and you’ll have a good day. As soon as you see a rise switch to swinging wet flies or try your hand at dries. Carry an assortment of different caddis pupae for when the fish start rising.

 

The plan is to fish both lakes and rivers while we’re over there and then halfway through the week we’re moving to diamond lake for the second half of the week from the 24th to the 27th

 

For the lakes you’re going to want a sink tip or a full sinking line. Preferably with access to a boat since it’ll be pretty hard to wade out to cast into the lake.

 

Every one of us have a personal flotation boat I have an inflatable pontoon there’s one guy with a float tube and two people with fishing kayaks

 

Good that’ll increase your success. Crane prairie is like a crown jewel of central OR and has some massive bows (knicknamed Cranebows). It’s pretty shallow in some areas and can be fished with most standard river mayfly patterns. If you really want to get down I’d recommend throwing some sort of weighted leech pattern. There’s lots of leeches in there. A bunny leech or MOAL leech for steelhead can be deadly when the mayflies aren’t doing it. Stick to the downed trees and bring a heavier rod. Your 5 wt will take a whooping. I bring my 7 wt when going that way. If you’re in the river then the 5 is fine.

 

Good to know since all o have is a 7wt right now anyways

 

Then definitely look at some leech patterns. Basically any steelhead leech pattern should work. I wouldn’t go smaller than 3X tippet. You’ll see!

 

Gonna try and revive this thread....

my fishing year so far has been a rollercoaster much like my life....

Up until middle of June I had only caught 5 trout... then slayed them on the Fall River and diamond lake. Then Timothy lake.. but then died off again. I have had more days of sinks this year so far then actual days of catching fish

on a side note though. I caught my first bass and steelhead this year so that’s awesome!! Here’s some pics of my fish so far this year.

Skunks come on...
Blue lake X3
Harriet lake x2
Hagg lake
Diamond lake
Columbia river x3
Fairview lake x4
Salish ponds
St. Louis ponds
North twin lake
Deschutes River
A pond near me that doesn’t have a name but has bass in it x4
Pine hollow
Trask River
Sandy river

Catches came on
Columbia River
Wilson river
Blue lake
Sandy river
Timothy lake
Diamond lake
Fall River
Pine Hollow