November | 2024 | Clackamas FlyFishers

Our November Fish A Long was well attended. It was more of a camping trip with a good fire to sit around, eat really good food and enjoy good conversation…with a little fishing thrown in. The weather was dry and the wind was down but as you’d expect, it was a little chilly. Fishing wasn’t hot but everyone got fish. Here’s a rundown.

Most trout were taken drifting egg patterns. The salmon spawn was mostly over but good afternoon hatches of small bugs had small nymphs producing action too. Rich did well swinging small size 14-18 soft hackles in the afternoon. These shorter days sneak up on you and the bite was over around 3:30. Fortunately we had a lot of firewood for evening campfires.

We had our BBQ steak dinner on Friday night. Everyone contributed and it was a meal to remember. The moon was down early this weekend which made for excellent stargazing.

Besides fishing the local wildlife was out. There weren’t as many Rams running around as last month but we saw some every day.

Beavertail is always a good fall destination. Thanks to everyone for coming. Until next year!

This month we have some really good reports ranging from Louisianna to Alaska and points in between! Pictures are first with the reports below. Enjoy!

From Laura McGuill: Traveled to Louisania in mid-Oct for an amazing hosted trip in the Bayou with Simon Gawesworth of Farbank/Sage/Rio. Landed a beast of a bull redfish after a wild fight. It measured 42″ long, 28 lbs and was taken on an 8wt fly rod.

From George Krumm: visited the Naknek River in early October. The Naknek is a fantastic place to swing big flies with two handers for extraordinarily big & strong rainbows!

From Tanner Kennedy: Fished the Deschutes with Rob Crandall in early October. Put in at Mack’s Canyon and camped 10 minutes down from the boat ramp. Fishing was on the slow side unti the last day when we got into some good fish, including this beauty!

The Oregon Fishing Club finished its fall stocking in late October. Big Tree fished really well, landed several good fish with the biggest a little over 24“.

Dave Kilhefner: fished the Coeur D Alene and St Joe Rivers in the Idaho panhandle. Did OK on whitefish & cutthroat plus lucked into a big 21″ cutt. Nymphing and dry/dropper tactics worked equally well. Water was very low, clear and cooling off (51 degrees). In the evening there was a great show of the northern lights plus witnessed a school of big spawning Kokanee along the shoreline of Hayden Lake.

From Rhona Dallison: I was traveling home from Sandpointe & texted Dave K. He texted me a pin of a good location on the Coeur D Alene river and I caught a few nice cutts on a little caddis pattern fished damp in the surface film.

From Rich Harvey: Had a very fun day down at the coast & caught 11 cutts; 5 were sea runs. There was a big orange termite hatch and caught them all on a dry. Went back the following week with Lane and we did well.

From George Coutts: Just got back from the Metolius. The Fall colors are on full display. Fished for a couple of hours one day but no fish. The Kokanee are spawning throughout the river and it’s fun to see all the fish, especially while wading.

From Stevie Brehm: fish are still biting at Diamond. First time I ever tried an egg in a lake but got in to some nice brownies.

From Tom Flannery: My son and I spent the day fly fishing the Squamish River, BC, Canada last week. Fished sinking lines with colorful beadhead streamers. The Squamish water was glacial white in color.
The area we chose to fish was a clear water trough created by a clear tributary. It’s a visually stunning area! We landed 12 coho and 1 chum salmon.