Willamette Valley Summer Steelhead

Steelhead Fly Patterns (click image for detail)

Willamette Valley Summer Steelhead:  (Hot Fish, Hot Flies, and Urban Fun)  

Jay W. Nicholas

May 2008

 

 In my dreams –

I don’t really live here.  I live beside a river.  Wild salmon and steelhead enter the river all year-round.  In my dreams I fish Clousers over cruising schools of salmon and cutthroat in the estuary.  I swing big leeches over big buck steelhead laying in boulder-studded glides.  I fish Spruce flies over ledges and sunken logs where twenty-inch Blueback ambush my fly.  When the water is high, I hike into fern fringed streams and chase chrome winter steelhead with little nymphs and

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