DESCHUTES, STEELHEAD, JETBOATS, JULY
My four favorite things! I live for July steel heading on the lower Deschutes and I prefer to do it by jet boat! This is a lower river game. By lower river I mean the lower 12 miles of the river. For…
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European Style Nymphing (ESN), Why?
Why nymph fish at all? The truth is the overwhelming majority of trout feeding behavior happens below the water’s surface. In fact most feeding activity happens around twelve inches off the river bottom. The answer is to catch fish when…
2019 Recommended Gear List: Deschutes Summer Steelhead
samsicklesJuly 21, 2018Deschutes Steelhead Guide, Deschutes Trout Guide, deschutesjetboatguide, Gear, Gorge Fly Shop, rods Summer Chrome Recommended equipment A big part of what you get with a good fly fishing guide is an opportunity to learn about equipment. Year in and year out I see…
2018 Recommended Gear List: Deschutes Summer Steelhead
Recommended equipment A big part of what you get with a good fly fishing guide is an opportunity to learn about equipment. Year in and year out I see people bring their own gear, most of the time this gear…
Deschutes Jet Boat Guided Steelhead
Summer officially starts June 21st. I’ll still be trout fishing on the lower lower, mostly with a trout spey, hoping to accidentally hook a June Steelhead. The real action happens in July. On a magical day the summer steelhead show…
Thank You!
Thank You! The holidays have come and gone which signals a new year is about to start. Before that happens I want to thank everyone who took their time and hard earned money to come and fish with me in…
Deschutes Playbook
Check out my article “Deschutes River Fishing Playbook” hosted at the Gorge Fly Shop.
The Salmonfly Hatch
I KNOW, IT’S JUST BARELY WINTER STEELHEAD SEASON! May comes pretty fast and it pays to plan ahead. The Salmonfly hatch is the most explosive surface action of the year! Few things in the Northwest get fly fishermen more excited…
G.Loomis Asquith (part 1)
Read Part II Here As a full time spey rod guide I spend a lot of time with two handed rods, my rods, client rods; I get to cast lots of different rods. For the last decade I’ve been a…
2017 Recommended Gear List
Recommended equipment: A big part of what you get with a good fly fishing guide is an opportunity to learn about equipment. I always bring fishing rods for my clients just in case what they bring isn’t up to date.…