Friday's Featured Fly - GFS Salmon Dry Fly Kit

Friday's Featured Fly - Of course has to be our hand selected GFS Salmon Dry Fly Kit.  We know you like a grab and go option for flies.....this is it for the famous Deschutes River Salmon dry fly kit.  Grab before you go.  Call the shop for questions or additional gear you might need before heading to the Deschutes.  

GFS Select Kit - Deschutes Salmon Dry Fly Kit

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Fishing Report - Columbia River Gorge and Beyond

May 27, 2012

Pilgrimage.

Out of the tumbling, green ribbon they crawl, somewhere along Main Street, Deschutes River Canyon, Oregon. Witness. Become part of this faithful migration.

This place is alive, now – full tilt alive. Water rarely meets sky with such ambition, as in days of the Salmon Fly.

Find this place.

Salmon Fly Adult

In other terms, the annual Salmon Fly and Golden Stone Fly Hatch on the Deschutes River is happening now. For fly anglers, these are the days remembered. Come on by the shop for any fly patterns or advice that you may need as we are happy to help you get connected!

Some of the finest lake fishing also happens this time of year. Stripping buggers on Intermediate, Full-Sink lines is a wonderful tactic on area lakes. Not far from Hood River, beautiful Lost Lake is now open and providing some wonderful opportunities for fishing and vistas alike.

Anglers continue to find steelhead throughout The Gorge. Although we are approaching that “betweener” time, there are some good numbers of early summer steelhead poking into area rivers. As long as levels and clarity hold, which has been the case lately, expect some solid fishing out there.  If conditions cooperate, May can be a wonderful month to get bent on the Clackamas and Sandy Rivers.

Here’s a few shots from the river. Travis Duddles, John Garrett and Tom Larimer could not resist the urge to share a few laughs and hookups out on the Deschutes.

Loop over the Deschutes

Healthy Deschutes River Rainbow

Rainbows Love Chubby Chernobles

Have a good time,

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The Deschutes River Salmon Fly Hatch

Deschutes Salmon Dry Fly Kit

On the bank by the river you kick your boot off and shake it upside down. Sweat drips into your eye; you have done it again: put on too many layers of clothing. A pebble drops out of your boot and into the grass. You draw your laces tight, secure the gravel guard in its rightful position and start to undress there beside the riffle. There are splotches of blue overhead and an upstream breeze cools the ring around your armpit. A flat chunk of basalt under your bum, an osprey peeps and the shadows crawl across the sage.

Sighing, you recall the words half spoken in the kitchen - Not loud but loud enough to ignite the broken dish in the sink and the yelling and the door slam. Weeds in the garden and crawling up the white fence post. You sat staring at the sunny sides on the plate for a long while before finding your fly rod where you had set it out with your gear bag the night before. Pesky words… Where were you when I needed you most? Hiding in my flybox?

Deep breath, you stare out to the river’s edge wondering of flamboyant hypes of hatches, of trout and the nature of chronic relationships. The surface of the river is dancing but there are no signs, no spotted snouts or flittering flies– just movement but you know it’s just a cover, like a face. A fine poker player - this river this day.