July has a variety of fly fishing options, thus we have a lot of good reports to share. Pictures are first with the report below.
From Lane Hoffman: Gil Henderson & I had a great trip fishing Klamath area lakes & rivers with guide Craig Schumann.
From George Krumm: Tom Larimer and I made the trip to the Togiak River in western Alaska to swing flies for Chinook. Despite high, cold water we landed kings and chums every day.
From Chris Foster: Fished the Metolius in late July. Had 6 takes and landed one small but beautiful Redside on a size 14 Parachute PMD. There was no major hatch going on. Saw a few Golden Stones on the bushes and a few females dipping the water, depositing eggs.
From Matt Isham: Caught some real nice rainbows on double beaded peacock herl stone nymph on the Clackamas at McIver Park.
From Wayne Hughes: Spent a week in the Thompson Falls area of Montana catching Trout, Bass, and yes Pike.
From Jim Behrend: My wife and I floated the McKenzie a couple weeks ago and had good fishing. She used a couple big caddis flies and did well, while I did indicator and Euro nymphing with good success.
From Chris Brehm: July was full of family and Grandkids. Fished Paulina with Granddaughter Reverie. She out fished me with some rainbows and a nice Kokanee for dinner. Got a limit of delicious Coho in the ocean outside of Astoria
From Matt Baker: Been getting out on a lot of small streams in the Mt. Hood national forest. Lots of small fish eager for a dry fly with a few surprises thrown in. I have really been enjoying fishing some out of the way streams. Don’t expect big fish or easy access but the rewards are there.
From Bob Beswick: Did some lake fishing last month. Fishing was not great and the wind made it a little more difficult.
From Dave Kilhefner: Rich Harvey & I hit the Trask for cuttroat. Fishing was a little tough but after a some searching we managed to find a pod of willing cuttroat that made our day.
From Dave Kilhefner: George Coutts & I made our annual trip to Pacific City to fish for rockfish & salmon with Connect Outfitters. We limited on rockfish by 8:30am plus I landed my first lingcod on the fly. Then we chased silver salmon the remainder of the trip. George landed one silver & we lost the rest.
Thanks to everyone for contributing your reports!
