If you live in the Pacific Northwest and haven’t treated yourself to fly fishing the salt you really should. It is some of the funnest fly fishing you can do out here and there are virtually no other anglers out there. This is also a sustainable fishery for catch and […]
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Back in 2019 I wrote an article about fly design for rockfish. There aren’t a lot of resources out there about rockfish on the pacific coast. I think I have produced the bulk of it at this point. That all being said, fly design plays a factor in this type […]
Fly fishing the jetties on the Oregon, Southern Washington, and Northern California coast can be some of the most fun you can have in fly fishing. You get a fish that likes to eat flies and pulls hard, what more could you want? The problem is where do these fish […]
Hosted a fly fishing fish-a-long with the Oregon Saltwater Fly Fishing group. We caught between 100-150 rockfish with 6 anglers this evening. Join the Oregon Saltwater Fly Fishing Facebook group at LINK Leave a comment here or on youtube!
If anyone wants to see my jetty presentation I recently did for the Santiam Fly Casting Club in Salem Oregon I have linked down below. I get into the basics in how to fish the jetties on the Oregon coast, the gear to bring, and the flies to tie. If […]
I was back on the Wet Fly Swing podcast. I looked it up and the last time I was on the show it was August of 2021 so it’s been a while. On that show which can be found here, I talked about a lot of fly tying stuff in […]
Safety on the jetties, that dot the West Coast, is paramount. Every year you see news reports of accidents on the jetties and the beaches here in the PNW. Most anglers that decide to venture out on the coast know the risk the water, rocks, and sand provide and go […]
One of my favorite things about the Pacific Northwest is the diversity of fish you can go after. Every day of the year you can go after some kind of fish on the fly rod no matter the condition, and you can have success going after them. This brings me […]
Recently I went out to go after pacific rockfish on the fly off a jetty here in Oregon. It was a blast. From the process I learned some good information about fly construction and design. By no means am I an expert on catching these fish, but I have tied […]