Recent content by Grifter

I have to ask (based on your other post about 'lost a springer'): did you catch this hen swinging the comet? if so, then well done indeed. I've only ever caught springers on the fly with indicators OR a stripped fly--I swore up and down that they didn't care for swung meat. nice work...

my money is on Barracuda.

I think igot_it's intel is solid: I'd dig a bit deeper in these boards and find a slough off the Willy. With this warm weather this time of year you could get into some bonkers fishing. If you can drive a half hour, Delta Ponds in Eugene have some decent sized bass. And massive carp too if that...

On my 7wt switch I've been tossing the Rio Switch Chucker (465gr)--it really bombs out, say, a big heavy articulated MOAL leech with ease. It's a little indelicate at times, but for swinging with a switch, it's fantastic. I've used with great success getting egg patterns out far and into...

Thanks for the report; sorry about your team.

I'm well-aware--thought I had, but when I posted it was gone, so I hit 'edit' and went old school. Besides, I have an aesthetic preference against the cartoonish speech bubble citation. I like the finer things.

"you could catch your first steelhead in about 3 casts on the Klickitat, John Day or big D right now.. **** the clack-" ..or if you have the time/means to head east in the direction of the Grande Ronde, seems a good place to cut your steely teeth.

...also... in such a situation, if I didn't have a good read on what was hatching (based on observation, water temp, season, time of day, etc) I would put on a streamer (a muddler minnow, clouser, beaded wooly bugger, leech pattern) and fish it near structure or cast it out far with some split...

Hi Rick, It's of course impossible to make a determination based on scant info (which flies were you using, both times, btw?), but my feeling is that your first experience was the fortunate timing of meeting a significant hatch in full swing (perhaps October caddis or BWO). The fish might have...

Slept on the ground near Wright Creek, then before the sun hit the water we were swinging the tail outs and runs up and downstream from the bridge. Fished for 4 straight hours without spotting a fish. Probably should have pool hopped a bit more, but that's how it went. Absolutely gorgeous...

I appreciate this input, Fred. I am glad to hear you recommend staying at Susan Creek (that's where I'm hoping to set up)--in order of priority, I'm hoping we can either stay at Susan, Bogus, or Island and be on the river well before first light, ready to swing. We'll probably employ some pool...

well, if you had to have a fishing baptism, you probably chose the best river for it.

Hi all, I have been striking out this year on chrome, so I thought I'd jump down to the Middle section of the N. Umpqua and give it a shot--try to seize the brass ring of the steelhead-by-fly world. I've never fished this river, and I'm wondering if anyone had some practical advice for how to...

Right you are--I got hasty with the quillback reference. This is really perplexing, because the morphology of what I saw suggested a more rotund fish, very distinct from the common carp cruising through the same section of water. I guess it could have been a pair of oversized koi--though...

Hi all, I found the carp Shangri-La near Fern Ridge, and I have been busy roping donkeys out there. Yesterday, I saw something that gave me pause: two enormous off-white "orbs" cruising along in the deeper part of a channel. I was elevated and could clearly see that these were fish, and BIG...