Oregon Trip

rich · Veteran Member

Oregon Trip

101fish · Senior Member

My second cousin runs a guide service in Merlin on the Rogue river, a bit south of where you are talking about, they have success on small orange/brown nymphs-cant remember the name of it at the moment, it kinda looked like an orange version of the prince nymph. I think youll be hitting the tail end of the winter steelhead run, other than that, I dont remember much else.

sorry. Good luck though

. Anything is better than here at the moment

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rich · Veteran Member

Thanks 101,

It seems like everyone I talk to all say the same thing, "throw orange". I 've taken a few of the "top patterns" and tied them in various shades of orange. We'll see... I have timed my journey to make the tailend of the season up there. My return trip will conincide with the opening of the prime streams here. I'm sure everyone plans like I do though so I'm likely to have lots of company. I really learned alot this watching the closure periods on the American. Just before the closures appear to be when the most fish are in their respective rivers.

lightfoot · Senior Member

Prime streams here might not be so prime with the weather we have had???

This opener, just like every year, I would prefer to fish for some wild rainbows (not in the bushes and trees) and finish the day off soaking in a natural hotspring.

wldeye · Newbie

Rich,

Moved to Southern Oregon 6 months ago from Petaluma and have gotten to know a couple of good websites for fishing reports up here.

The first one is http://pub107.ezboard.com/bsouthernoregonflyfishing16217

This concentrates on the lower half of the state but does venture into the central waters.

Westfly is also another good site http://www.westfly.com/cgi-bin/entryPage?state=OR

these guys love to be secretive about their spots so investigate.

Also the medford Mail tribune has weekly fishing reports every thursday online. Check these out before you go.

I have heard some Steelhead reports out of the Umpqua lately and don't forget the Smallmouth. The Upper Rogue is fishing well also. I would have offerd to try and hook up and guide you around except my job up here is ending and it's back to Ca. for me.

Craig.

rich · Veteran Member

Thanks Craig,

Where are you going to be in Cali ? I fish up on the Russian around the cloverdale area quite frequently. Send me a post and maybe we can hook up. I fish alone most of the time because I am relatively new here and nobody I know fishes.