Hope everyone enjoyed a nice Thanksgiving and was able to get out and do some fishing with friends. Fishing last month was pretty good as you’ll see when the November fishing reports come out next week.
It’s time to think about paying your 2025 membership fee. However, if you joined as a new member in the second half of 2024 it will be good for 2025 too; we are on the honor system so please let me know. Here is the membership link. If you participate in the club I will guarantee you’ll get a solid value for the $35 you pay to be a member.
The main activities our club focuses on are meetings and fish a longs.
I’m looking for input on the 2025 Fish A Longs schedule. With the warming trends fishing opportunities are changing. Check out the 2025 fish a longs schedule and let me know if you’d like to see any changes; it’s not set in stone!
December is shaping up to be decent fishing month. My crystal ball says the most dependable fishing will be at the Oregon Fishing Club ponds for trout, especially after a warming trend (the pic above is Rich Harvey with a pig of a trout from Blue Den Lake). The key to winter fishing is to be ready to fish when a weather window presents itself. Several coastal streams get good early runs of steelhead. The Clackamas and Sandy get random shots of early winter steelhead too plus this year there are a good number of native, late running coho. Here’s a link to the PGE fish counts so you can see for yourself.
We don’t have a club Fish-A-Long in December but I’m open to helping folks with their spey casting and winter steelhead presentation basics. If you are interested in this email me and I’ll put you on the list.
For several years now we have been posting monthly fishing reports. Looking back on them is a good way to get ideas for local fly fishing opportunities currently happening or coming up. I’ve tested it out and it works! Type the word December or January in the search box and you’ll get all the past reports for that month.
Now is the perfect time for Christmas shopping plus don’t forget to get your wish list out so you get all the stocking stuffers you want. Please remember our local fly shops and sporting goods stores.