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Sure miss his posts .... here's to you OMJ ! 😬

Ditto .... who would have ever thought grade 1 fly tying feathers would become The Thing for putting in your hair ... I sure never saw that one coming :oops:

I've never caught a small smallmouth trout (whitefish) and always wondered why. You caught a four inch guy so I guess there are small ones out there.... but for me it is danged rare to catch small ones.

Zippo in Corvallis. Just cold and foggy. I remember fishing in the snow. Usually it didn't work out ... except for The Metolius. Back in the day when they first started leaving the river open all year around we could do quite well in the snow, even with dry flies. I don't think the...

Now I won't say who but I know an avid fly angler who only fly fishes and releases his catch and he has fished closed waters and only found out later that the waters were closed. An OSP officer was a member of our local fly club and he once told us that field officers seldom had to ticket...

I'd be more concerned about someone killing wild trout in a C&R fishery and hiding them in their beer cooler ... which I've seen happen in the past. That was before the days of smart phones with cameras and they grabbed their cooler and took off when they saw me.

This is strange. I've never seen a posting such as this for unlawful angling before. And it appears he's flyfishing. I agree, there must be more to this story than just a guy fishing out of season.

A very, very, very long time ago, I was fishing 3 Dollar Bridge on the Madison and dropped my fly floatant in the river and it was gone. This was a bad deal because the Madison is fairly fast at 3 Dollar Bridge so small caddis dry fly patterns sink quickly without floatant. I remembered my...

I also use closed cell foam for my surface poppers. Thanks for the heads up about the soft UV resin. I'll be ordering some for sure.

When it was held in Eugene it was a one day affair. The secessions weren't as long either. It was all expanded when they moved the site to Albany.

That's what I would have said :D

Yup, I've watched trout "mouth" items floating downstream just to spit them out when they discovered they were not edible... which makes me wonder if they are checking for some manner of give to the item. Obviously a small stick doesn't not have the same texture as does a free floating...

I can certainly see coating a feather wing case as those on a GRHE.... I use Sally Hansen to hold the wing case together. But I see a lot of patterns where the entire fly has a thick clear coat so I started to wonder if there is a fish catching advantage to adding the coating.

Ah, I didn't think about making the pattern more durable. As long as it doesn't work as a fish repellent then adding the coating for durability makes sense.

Coating subsurface patterns with a transparent sealer seems to be quite the rage. I haven't jumped on that bandwagon. They do look interesting but I'm wondering if anyone has determined that adding the clear coat has increased their catch rate.

I have no idea why some anglers in Oregon refer to the Sea-run Cutthroat as "blueback". Never made sense to me.

I'm pretty sure that is an Atlantic Salmon Sculpin.....

Geez.... I had no idea about the great pacific salmon name wars... In these parts we all call the big ol' salmon Chinooks or Kings -- no one seems to get in an uproar about it one way or the other. The smaller, steelhead size, pacific salmon we call silvers or coho and again, no one I've...

As mentioned above, just about any river or stream that flows into the Pacific can hold some manner of anadromous fish ... at the very least, sea-run cutthroat. All the rivers around Tillamook can be good (depending on river conditions). Plus the Alsea and Siuslaw rivers and those in between.