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Large chunks of our yard are plants that would look more at home in central Oregon or Washington (more Portland-appropriate stuff is under the tree canopies). They don't need much water and have some pretty great blooms in the summer. Our edible plants are really the only ones that need...

I remember seeing hyper-realistic flies in magazines 30 years ago. There is a reason why they haven't caught on and it's not because of price. If realistic flies actually caught more fish, you'd see them all over fly shop bins because people would be buying them. What clinched it for me was...

Plenty of people on here fish the Cowlitz, gear and fly. Welcome!

I started fishing for bass occasionally, and I realized I don't have a straight floater for my 7wt. Any lines out there that are well under a hundred bucks? I'm throwing small/medium sized hair bugs/poppers and streamers. Airflo has their Power Tapers on closeout, they seem to have a similar...

Different fish, different state, different situation. Willamette basin coho seem to be doing well relative to our current shifted-baseline. Heck, they are almost encouraging a fishery for them above the falls at this juncture. The Clackamas has been a bright spot for wild spring chinook and...

Was there ever a run of wild chinook and steelhead above the falls?

I eat a lot of beans as well. Am I really missing out not eating these artisanal beans? I usually get them in bulk sections with high turnover. Do you use a pressure cooker, or is this low and slow on the stovetop?

This is my stance too, and what makes me less steamed than others about this. It's a decent drive and then sometimes hike to get to a lot of these smaller tributaries for a payoff that many fly-fishers don't think is worth it. I don't fish up there like I used to, so maybe there are a ton more...

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These lines are about 10 years old. All of them have had very little use and have been stored away from heat and sunlight. Will meet up in PDX area, or you could talk me into handing them off somewhere on a SW Washington steelhead river. All of the Orvis lines have a braided mono core and...

The PDX area trout reports have almost always been written by one specific guy. He is nice, maybe you could contact him directly? I think he might be open to hearing you out, or at least making spots a little less specific.

Weren't most of these names already dropped on the original WestFly or WFF? :)

If I'm not floating a dropper, a usual.

Grandpa was a SERIOUS fly tyer, and spent a lot of money at Kaufman's! My guess is he had this stuff in storage in his twilight years, or relatives inherited it, and didn't know what to do with it. There are probably some hooks and exotic materials there that are highly coveted. Maybe some...

Surf perch are pretty easy, cast something shrimpy/crabby with orange and move till you find a school. Conventional tackle is easier and less work. Something that can throw out an ounce or two of weight on a carolina rig with a gulp sandworm on a hook (a steelhead float rod works great). They...

General rules state SRC's aren't open until standard trout opener on May 22nd. However, take a look at the regs, I'm not 100% sure about the Siuslaw, it may be allowed in the bay or tidewater. I haven't fished down there, but I would bet standard OR coast fare. Surf perch on the beach, and...

Growing up in Indiana, there were always tales of giant snapping turtles pulling cattle into farm ponds.

I'm scared to call pen-tac and see what a 50/50 would cost now.

"Guides replace their lines every year". If I could get fly lines at a substantial discount or even free to test, I'd probably replace them more often too. This is my big gripe with fly lines. If it costs so much, it should last a while. Didn't someone post on another thread that an insider...

It used to be called Sucker Lake