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New Years Day, hiked a couple miles in on dead roads, bushwhacked several hundred feet nearly straight down to a tiny coastal stream that may only be fished once or twice a year by any one person, total! Loaded with hungry cutthroats that are completely cuttoff from any other fish above a falls...

Pelicans as in birds, literally? Or is this a euphemism? I've seen the expression tossed around in other threads as well...

Purty little coastal cutty…

Yeah, it’s a good time in the spring and fall. I fished a 7.5’ 2wt and my 10’ 2wt euro rod yesterday. The larger rainbow actually took an emerger I was using as the indicator on the surface, with a midge nymph on the dropper. The cutts we’re taking the nymphs. But yeah, come July august it’s...

Looks like this finally happened… https://www.jointreeforall.org/blog/2022/10/25/balm-grove-dam-removal Hopefully it doesn’t drive them to change the trout season regs… it’s nice having a fun little stream to fish year round, 30 minutes from home. Fwiw, I’ve only caught cutthroat upstream of...

I'd buy a dozen!

As a surveyor, it would cost ALOT...

Weyerhaeuser… Not only blocking public access to public lands, but charging for limited access. On top of that they’re stealing from the local communities by not having to pay the taxes that were originally setup to help fund local budgets where timber was harvested from. It’s despicable.

Good tip, wouldn't have suspected a hatch at that time. That sentence sums up why I need a guide... ;) otherwise I'll just be tossing whatever nymph willy nilly.

So, my wife wants to rent a cabin for few days in January before returning to work in February, one last good time before returning to work after a year long "vacation". Does anyone have a recommended river and guide sevice in Oregon/SW Washington for trout fishing that time of year? Maybe...

I think he's trying to fake us out... anyone with half a brain can tell this is the Owyhee...

Do they stock streams in Oregon? Most of the rivers i mentioned have reservoirs that get stocked, but i didn't think they did any stream stocking. The Cowlitz has a sea runcutthroat stocking program, from what i understand.

I've been meaning to get down in there for a couple years. its neat to see a report of this. water looks pretty good for september, how ws the fishing? decent overall?

True, loose lips... but, are there really any secrets anymore? I guess there was one in there i'd like to keep to myself. Oh well... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ha! Truth... I just need one, size doesn't matter. Pics or it didn't happen!

I couldn't even begin to get my hand around this fatty... Pushing 20" Just sat on the bottom like a dead log. I alwasy catch them on sz14-16 perdigons. Usually a 3.8mm tungsten bead, blue body, maybe a pink hotspot or short pink tail. Usually faster, deeper pools. Sometimes just tossed...

thanks, yeah, cowlitz is on the radar, working my way that direction. Reason I've been fishing SW washington lately is I'm trying to find rivers that A: have fish B: decent access on foot C: easier wading. my father in law who recently relocated from W.V. to Vancouveris a big fly fisher...

No, it was a good time for sure. It was a great weekend to be out; nice weather and zero people (maybe that should have been a sign...) I was just surprised to not catch a single trout, not even a strike. The whitefish i did catch were fun, but, you know, trout are funnerer... One of them...

Mckenzie, certain forks of S*** and W***, C***, and anything that comes off the coast range in to the willamette. Those are all really good trout streams. I guess that makes sense, alot of the rivers that come directly off glacial sources maybe arent necessarily the best. There arent many...

No, I had not heard that. I've never fished western washington before. Why would i ever think otherwise? All the western oregon rivers that drain in to the same Columbia system are loaded with trout. Feels like a logical assumption to me... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ WDFW should probably change the regs...