Recent content by Flyfisheress

The Elk river hatchery is down the road from my cabin. They usually raise a couple of raceways of rainbows closest to the building to full adult size. They release them in Port Orford Lake and a few other places. All the rest are salmon and steelhead smolts...

Here is the harsh math - both southern orcas and sea lions eat chinook salmon. The salmon population is down to only 7% of what it was 200 years ago. Meanwhile the Calif sea lion population has grown from 50,000 in 1975 to 300,000 in Wash/Or/Calif waters today. This is a protected species...

Better remove those private dams too or else this is all climate change BS.

Some funny stories about crawdads- (Check out the place this movie was played- Greelley Bar and Grill in Portland Oregon- "Beer, Burgers and a free movie" )

Otters near Waldport probably eat bass.

I once caught my smallest fish ever on the largest fly ever. Up at the end of a windy forest road to where a giant spring poured out of the mountainside and was the headwater of a little creek. Because I had heard that Brookies like red and just to see what happened I cast a size 10 Royal...

People can trap those daggumed minks and sell the hides for coats. But the Oregon ODFW furbearer rules are so nuts why bother? The chinavirus has shown up on mink farms. I like otters. One time on highway 1 at Big sur we pulled off and got out. Down below was a kelp bed with sea otter's heads...

Speaking of lakes I saw a mother otter with 2 babies on Laird Lake in the natl.forest in Curry county. It's not much of a lake, more like a pond. This was the first time I had ever seen river otters. You could easily watch the three of them swimming in the glass clear water. These animals were...

Steelhead fishing- Hahaha I have to explain something and I explain it to all this fishing board since I am new. I am not a liberal looloo, but a conservative. But I have always been a vegetarian (not vegan, eating eggs and milk does not harm animals) because I have since a child had love and...

I like to see the slashing takes so it will have to be brown Bombers and ants. East shore of the South Coquille on the white deer mile. Right now a lot of driftboats are going by.

There is actually a rotting king size mattress at the takeout at mile 7.

Hi. We moved here from Texas to a place on the South Coquille. I understand there is a problem with small mouth bass eating up the salmon smolts. I have never fished for small mouth, only fly fished for Guadalupe Bass on central Texas rivers (we call them green trout) and largemouth in ponds and...

Most of the garbage I see along The Powers highway is just the usual white trash leavings. People pick up the cans and bottles for the 10 cent refund on bottles and cans but the household garbage strewn left on highway 242 is disgusting. How can people who live on the South Coquille in such a...