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The Middle Fork Willamette is also producing some Quality Fish
We had a very pleasant drift yesterday on the Middle Fork Willamette with several chances on feisty Summer Steelhead. Despite a forecast for very hot temperatures, a cool breeze off the water kept us really comfortable throughout the float. It’s always a pleasant surprise when an apparent trout bite turns into an acrobatic tail-walking, summersaulting, line-burning Steelhead!
McKenzie River Offers a Hat-Trick of Fishing Options
In addition to some excellent fly fishing for trout, we now have Spring Chinook Salmon & feisty Summer Steelhead all producing some fun summer fishing action on the McKenzie. This past week, Julie and her Dad celebrated a combination Birthday-Fathers Day with a salmon/steelhead combo trip. In addition to Julie’s big steelhead, they landed several nice Springers as well. Suffice to say, their Father’s Day BBQ was plentiful!
WISHING YOU ALL FUN, GOOD HEALTH & CONTENTMENT IN THE NEW YEAR
As we slide into the New Year, our fishing focus transitions as well. Time to say Good Bye to our 2016 Salmon season and embrace the on-coming 2017 Winter Steelhead season. My guests yesterday who were out visiting from Texas got a taste for some winter chrome as we stumbled into several fresh winter-runs
Spring Chinook – Summer Steelhead – Trout Now Showing on the McKenzie River & Middle Fork Willamette
Gary was happy to land a feisty Summer Steelhead & a fresh Spring Chinook on Tuesday’s trip down the McKenzie River. Action should continue to heat up in the weeks to come through June & July. On yesterday’s trout trip we landed 21 Rainbows on about 35 takes on wets & dries. Great trout fishing should also continue through the summer.
Winter Steelheading Moves into Full Swing. Many Rivers will peak from late January through February.
Now that we have transitioned from Salmon fishing into our Winter Steelhead season, we are enjoying consistent steelhead action on our southcoast streams whenever river levels and conditions cooperate
The Oregon South Coast Rivers Produce Nice Catches When River Levels Cooperate
Pat & Julia are all smiles with a portion of their limit from last Saturday’s South-coast fishing excursion
Elk & Sixes River Chinook Fishing – Crankin’ in the Big Boys
Fishing was great on the Elk & Sixes Rivers for a couple weeks or more while we had enough water in the rivers to invite the returning salmon and to float drift boats. While Seattle and Portland have been hammered with rain, recent storms have somehow missed Port Orford causing me to have to reschedule this weeks’ trips due to low water levels in the rivers. Bring on the Rain!
Oregon’s Elk & Sixes Rivers Continue to Crank Out Hard-Fighting Fatties
Due to recent rains the Elk & Sixes Rivers are enjoying sustained, reasonable water levels and the fish are responding favorably.
With rainfall and consequent rising rivers, our Elk-Sixes fishing for big Chinook has been anything but disappointing
Hank can certainly attest to the size and power of these late-run fish!