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Remember where you caught those whitefish, and fish water that is faster than that. More likely to hold rainbows. Also what PhilR said, fish a little higher in the water column. Rainbows are more willing to look up.

Maybe try a rage? I know the fancier fishermen poo-poo them, but they work and one of the reasons they were made was specifically for folks coming off of skagit lines. I use a rage with an intermediate or sink 3 polyleader for most summer work. The intermediate handles the classic...

They are still crossing the falls according to the counts.

I am finicky about trout, depends on what the temperature regime is in the body of water, and if the fish was stocked recently, but I will take one or two home occasionally because it impresses the family and convinces my significant other fishing isn't a complete waste of time and money.

The WA regs allow you to covertly fish for steelhead when it's closed, unfortunately. OR Whitefish regs allow you to fish for them if it is open for Salmon or Steelhead. If it's closed to Salmon/Steelhead, then it's closed.

Not a fly rod, but my spoon/spinner rod is a X11 baitcaster. Good rod for the money, and it's taken a lot of abuse.

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...