Below are our overdue June & July Fishing Reports. Pics are first with the reports below.

July Reports

From Lane Hoffman: made the trip down to Upper Klamath Lake in late July and had some good fishing for big fish!

From Greg O’Brien: Did a DIY float with my wife, son & brother via Papa Bear Adventures on the Kanektok River. Countless Dolly Varden chum and pink salmon were caught with beads & streamers. We also caught rainbows, grayling, coho. Amazing trip with very fortunate weather (except the last 2 of 10 days). 

From Mark Rasmussen: Lots of fun at the cabin on the Henry’s Fork this month. Taught a few buddies how to fish, went to some good spots in Yellowstone, took the grandkids out a few times. Also went backpacking in the Uintas in Utah. Lots of pretty cutthroat in the lakes and streams. We did our part by eating all the brookies that we caught. The last picture is of my buddy snorkeling around at Hatchery Ford, looking for a rod that he dropped. (No luck…).

From Chris Brehm: Did two days of fishing with Joe Warren out of Depoe Bay. Limits of rock fish one day and Coho the next. Good day on Agency Lake with brother Stevie.  About 15 brought to the net with several pushing 10 lbs. Best flies were Seal Buggers and Leeches (thanks to Lane for the tip!).

From Craig Kershen: While fishing at Laurence Lake I saw this posted near the message board. What a great idea!

From Dave Kilhefner: Fished the upper North Fork Clearwater River in north Idaho. Beautiful area! Had good success on Westslope Cutthroats, some whitefish plus landed a bonus Bull Trout on my Euro Rod.

From Patrick Leonard: Floated the McKenzie. Day started slow but around 2 pm I caught my first fish on a dry, after that it was crazy: hooked, lost, and netted so many fish that I truly have no idea how many. Every riffle had fish and they were all looking up.  On one riffle, every time I let the dry fly swing below me I would get a hit from a large fish, but I was standing in strong current and I couldn’t get them into the net. Didn’t get to the landing until 7, and I only left then because I knew I had a long drive and another early fishing trip the next day. The next day I fished the Kalama River in Washington, lots of small fish.

June Reports

From Tom Phipps: With extended fam in Sitka, did get a couple rock fish on a pink clouser

From Ken Kelley: Brother David and I learned boating, crabbing and rock fishing in May/June

From Mark Rasmussen: Lots of good, strong, early, Henry’s Fork fish on Green Drakes. Above the reservoir, I finally figured out that when the suckers are spawning, I should fish sucker spawn. Worked great! Came home for a week and got some decent bass on the Willamette.

From Ed Rabinowe: Launched at Sauvie, beautiful water, nice houseboats, great boat ride. There are no walleye in the water! save yourself a trip.

From Jim Behrend: Floated the McKenzie the 3^rd week in June. Did well with caddis dries and euro-nymphing. 

From Patrick Leonard: floated the lower North Santiam, mostly small trout. Fished the North Umpqua, some nice trout in the evening when the BWO hatch occurred. Sorry, no pictures

Thanks to everyone for contributing your reports!

Our July Fish A Long targeted small streams on Mt Hood off Hwy 26. This was a new area for most of us but it worked out very well. We had good weather, good attendance and afterwards, good food! Here’s a recap; pics first with the description below.

Many people expressed interest in the Upper Sandy River but it runs off color from melting glaciers in the summer. For this reason our primary targets were the clear running streams; the Salmon, Zig Zag, Still Creek and Camp Creek. This time Still Creek produced the best fishing. As you’d expect, most of the fish were small but a couple respectable specimens were brought to hand.

A couple anglers tried some of the small streams up by Lolo Pass. Again, it was mostly small to very small fish but a respectable fish or two were landed. Most action was on small dry flies.

Afterwards we had a potluck steak BBQ, a great ending to our day. Thanks to everyone that came and made this another fun Fish A Long to remember!

May is always a great fly fishing month as spring finally transitions into summer. Pics are first with the reports below.

From Joe Warren: had a great trip to Rufus Woods and caught many big triploids stripping streamers on a full sinking line.

From Craig Kerschen: It was a treat to fish with our son Aaron at Hartland Lake near Lyle WA. This big bow decided to fly off just as I hit the shutter. Great fun…great day.

From Chris Brehm: Caught a nice Smallmouth on a Chironomid at Lake Almanor CA. Then stopped at Klamath Lake and landed a nice Redband, also on a Chironomid. Caught two Springers caught on the same day in the Willamette on a a Spin Fish. 

From Patrick Leonard: spent two days fishing the salmonfly hatch on the Deschutes, it was a lot of fun. Fished the Upper Clackamas for 3 days is late May; lots of small fish but every once in a while you hit a monster.

From Bob Beswick: had some good Ling Cod and Rockfish action out of Newport with fishing buddies Neal and Mike.

From Wayne Hughes: Fished on the Willamette river for a couple of trips and found some Bass. Also took a trip to a local lake to chase trout and had success while stripping leech patterns. 

From Dave Kilhefner: Rich & I hit some of the OFC lakes and had some decent trout action. Most fish were on Chironomids but leeches and emergers also temped some fish.

From Tony Misley: Had fun fishing with the whole family at Lake Harriet.

Thanks to everyone for sending in your reports. It was a good month!

We have some good reports to share for this past April. Pics are first with the report below.

From Ed Rabinowe: Had some good Snook fishing near Chokoloskee Florida

From Bryan Dawson: On April 28, I caught two bull trout, a smallmouth, and a Kokanee on Lake Billy Chinook.  We fished streamers on a Rio short sinking line too, which got a few bites.  But all four fish took streamers 3’-5’ under an indicator.  

From Patrick Leonard: In early April the dry fly fishing was amazing at Blue Den. We had good Callibaetis hatches in the middle of the day plus Blue Wing Olives in the evenings, especially near the levee.

From Jim Bennett: Had a good time fishing at Lanice Lake in eastern Washington. Didn’t catch as many as others, but did catch three of the biggest trout I’ve ever caught at about 18 inches. Also, the last photo shows an event that volunteered for called Kleinline fishing day for kids with special needs. They planted 14,500 fish in the lake and the kids each got to keep two fish. Fun was had by all.

From Rich Harvey: had some good fishing at the OFC lakes with emerger patterns and small soft hackles.

Thanks to everyone for contributing your reports!