Cabin Fever Getting You......? It's Getting Me.....

High water has been the trend as of late.....

Water levels have zig-zagged up and down with lots of consistent rain...

Don't you wish you were on the lower Deschutes in August swinging wet flies on a floating line....

Trophy Winter Steelhead Video

When I was out on January 30th, I lucked out and landed the biggest steelhead to hand so far. I have tussled with fish like this, but something always went wrong causing the fish to not physically get landed. The other fish I have seen of this caliber are fish that clients hooked up with on guided trips; so my time for a trophy steelhead of a lifetime was due. This time, all of the forces came together, and I finally landed my trophy steelhead. The video is long, but I did edit a lot of the battle, and some "excited in the heat of the moment" foul language. I kept much of the fight because you can really see what this fish caused me to go through while battling it. Between running upstream and catching my fly line around a rock in the rapids, to getting stuck on a underwater set of branches, enduring a stalemate in a tailout, to just flat out whooping my butt; this big bad mean winter steelhead really was an amazing experience. The video is edited between the "point of view" perspective on a GoPro camera flipping back to another "view point" with a hand held camera of me fighting the fish. The time is meshed back and forth; so you can feel most of the battle. I hope you enjoy the video!

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Fly Fishing Film Tour 2014 - Portland Show - New Date Due to Weather

Due to the crazy storm, the Fly Fishing Film Tour's Portland Shows at the Aladdin Theater have been changed to February 15th. The show times are still 5pm and 8pm. Tickets can be purchased at the Portland Orvis Store ($13/each), along with two other locations ($13/each), online ($15/each advance), and also at the door ($15/each DOS). If you purchased tickets for the show on the 8th; they are good for the 15th show.