Finally!

After a long winter and many thousands of casts and swings, I finally hooked and landed a winter steelhead.
My new fishing friend, Scott Lyke took me to the Siletz river where he was sure I could get the skunk off of my winter steelhead woes.
The river was absolutely beautiful, besides for all the clearcuts, and the conditions were good. The river was a little lower than Scott likes to see, but we were excited.
Scott hooked a fish almost immediately after wading across the river, but it jumped and was gone just as fast. I had lost a few flies to snags and thought it was time to move on when I got hung up again. But then my rod bent double and I realized I was into a very strong fish. He bullied me around for a good stretch but never took off on any blistering runs. I was happy about that, because if I had to chase him downriver with my worn out felts, I am sure I would have taken a swim! So after a very good forearm workout, I was able to tail this vey nice native male.
I can't wait for next winter!
Did I just say that? What a idiot.

Long Time

Been away from this for a long time now.
I had a great summer and fall fishing the Deschutes, and chasing Carp in the gorge. I have been trying to figure out how to catch the elusive winter steelhead here on the Hood river. Nada yet though.
I have somehow become the President of the Columbia Gorge Fly Fishing club this winter. I am hoping to sort of set a fire under the members to get back into it, as the group seems to have lost interest. Hopefully we will have some fun outings and good speakers to get things rolling. I will also try to post things here as they happen for the group, plus I am preparing a new website for the group.
Anyway, I had to write something to get myself back into making reports. Later for now. dpstar