Fishing Report - Lower Deschutes

I spent the day guiding two wonderful people from the great state of Minnesota. The fishing was challenging, and the weather added insult to injury... it rained hard off and on for 1/2 of the day. We did manage to bring in a few modest fish, and one fantastic Redside.

Fishing Report - Lower Deschutes - Sherar's Falls

Sherar's Falls mark the 1/2 way point for steelhead journeying up the Deschutes River. Steelhead (and Salmon) swim up a fish latter and into a trap. Once in the trap, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, study, count, and tag each fish. They use this station as a gage to estimate the amount of steelhead returning to the Deschutes. This year, they have been trapping huge numbers, weeks earlier than normal. It's going to be a great steelhead season.

Columbia River dam counts

Steelhead are storming over the dams in the Columbia river. Our steelhead season should be epic!

Tarpon Trip 2009

For the 3rd year in row I returned to the quiet fishing village of San Felipe, on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Greeted by my friend Marco, owner of Yucatan Fly Fishing, at the Cancun airport, Kurt Brickner and I traveled to Hotel San Felipe: A.K.A - Tarpon Caye Lodge. You should already know that this location offers some of the best fishing in the world... why else would I have returned? Well it could also be the hospitality or the quality of the guides. And, don't forget the food. We ate fresh caught fish, shrimp, and lobster, all prepared in traditional Yucatan style.

Back to the fishing. How does jumping 48 tarpon sound? How does two doubles in the boat, and 5 doubles on sound? How does having 15 miles of the best tarpon flats and mangroves in the world all to yourself sound? That's right... Awesome! See for yourself.