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I've been to that beach

Yesterday I went fishing upriver here on the N. Umpqua. I have never seen the river this low even in late August. This is good for me, cause as my legs aren't what they used to be, and I was able to wade out and fish a run that I have never been able to fish before. Yes, I caught a couple of...

I've heard it said "Ya can't fix stupid" I've got to add this. I live on a gravel road in a little town in Southern Oregon. I have seen my neighbor drive up and down the road with their daughter standing in the sunroof. The child is six to eight yrs. old. I hope they don't have to stop fast...

Sweeeet!!!!!!

I caught a brown bull head once on a scud. I happened to see the catfish feeding in the weeds right along the shoreline of one of the Rock island ponds

You guys are funny. Growing up in Southern Oregon was great time as a kid. We used to catch a few bull frog tad poles and watch them grow up into frogs and then release them back where we found them.

Love me some blue gill on my 3wt

I used to live in Omak and in the summer evenings I would go down to the bridge and wade the river using a small white grub and catch more small mouth bass than I could count, some up to 3 lbs. I fished the Similkameen river a couple times above the dam on my friends mining claim. Caught some...

Thank you for posting the great pics. My dad was my mentor. He was a spin fisherman and that was OK by me, he started taking me fishing when I was three or four years old. My fly fishing mentor was "Flip" and you older guys know who I'm talking about.

my .02 is that if you tie a tippet to the bend of a hook the fish will feel the tippet and not take. The other point is with a barbless hook the tippet will slip off. Most times I fish a two fly system is with a large dry fly and a small nymph

I have caught fish on the bottom fly, scud or leach. But I have found that I can catch just as many fish on a single fly than using two flies

Love the tiger trout. My best was 18" caught in a little lake in central WA. I have seen some tigers in Diamond lake, OR that would go double digit

I have hunted both with bow and rifle for many, many years and what I believe is hunting is more about being out with mother nature than killing. The advice above is all good. Thank you for asking a good question on this board. Get started now and the rewards will last a life time.

Life has its ups and downs. I like to catch a fish when I go fishing. Big, small doesn't matter. I just want to fool'em. Lately I just can't get motivated to go wet a line. Is the river to high, muddy, or do I have other things that get in the way of fishing. Cost of fuel has gotten me in an...