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Our goofy female springer Ripley just turned 9. She would have been a great upland bird dog except I quit doing that about 15 years ago. We never did boat train her - something I regret but like all springers, she loves the water and loves hanging with the grandkids.

I have linked an interesting write up about what ocean indicators are being tracked by NOAA as they await the arrival of the impacts of the current El Nino on the West Coast. There's a discussion of the range extension of many of "exotics" (ie striped marlin, dorado) which actually is not...

@M_D very accurately describes my journey for finicky, estuary staging Oregon Coast coho. Jack Harrell over in Pacific City swears by this fly. It's a small, sparsely tied clouser - he likes to use size 6. He sent me this photo of a 12 pound buck he caught two days ago.

Yes and small sparse clousers

It was a pretty day to be swinging flies in the Oregon tidewater.

Yep - those be the ones. Was the link to the guy's tutorial on YouTube?

Jay Nicholas wrote a book about SRC fishing and flies that's Oregon-centric. I think it's an excellent resource as he draws from his career as a ODFW fisheries biologist as well as a life long pursuer of SRC's. In the book he talks about "rapid ejection", which is when the fish takes it into...

Yet another version of the reverse spider. A guy from Corvallis in another forum developed this fly and it's my go-to. He fishes rivers on the central coast. It also works well in tidewater. Post some photos if you go! This was the original version but they are just as effective (and...

Thanks for that - I'm sticking with coastal cutthroat!

I would love a better look at the head/maxillary but to me it looks like a coastal cutthroat.

Wow - lots of them! Where is this?

We had a surface area of low pressure centered just south of us near Newport which spawned numerous showers and thunderstorms to rotate through the area. I just checked and we ended up with 2.55" for two days which provided a much needed bump to the local rivers. That should help spread out...

This morning we are getting post frontal showers and thunderstorms.

Count me in with the breakfast burrito crowd. They usually consist of whatever burrito-suitable ingredients are in the fridge mixed with egg, topped with El Torito Market salsa and wrapped in a 8" Guerrero Requisima flour tortilla. Everything tastes better in a tortilla!

A couple of images from yesterday on the Oregon coast.