Editor’s Note: Member Rick Pay shares his quite successful fall fishing trip on one of the best trout streams west of the Cascades. As you plan your 2023 fly fishing…
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Literary Angler – Transitions
Editor’s Note: This month often conjures up memories of transitions – last holiday season before a child goes off to college, reflections on the year’s major events, new people who…
Literary Angler – Searching for Riffles and Ovid . . . with an Angle
Searching for Disney Riffle Disney Riffle on the Deschutes River is water I first heard about over thirty years ago. It sounded amazing, full of large trout and great steelhead…
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Literary Angler – Trout Rod Review
Editor’s Note: Club member Jay Spassov offers this brief exploration into small and perhaps little known rod companies in his first submission to the Flyline. Historically, the Flyline and The…
Literary Angler – A Flyfisher’s Diary
Minam River My wife had booked a surprise trip in early June to the Wallowa Mountains in Eastern Oregon to celebrate our wedding anniversary. We stayed at the Minam River…
Literary Angler – Pavlovian Trout or Persistence in Outsmarting Salmo Trutta
It was a long 6 ½ hour drive from San Luis Obispo to Mammoth Lakes, CA but worth the effort. Six or 8 of the members of the Santa…
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Literary Angler – The River Taketh, and the River Giveth
The prophet Job was not a fly-fisherman. Otherwise, his lament would begin with “taketh,” not “giveth.” The river more often takes fortune from us—missed fish, snapped leaders, flies hung up…
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Literary Angler – Our Literary Legacy and Rave Reviews for the 60th Anniversary Creel
A Brief History of Angling Literature Produced by the Flyfisher’s Club of Oregon Mark Metzdorff, MD President 2001-02 Editor, The Flyline, 2000-10 At the Club’s December 2021 meeting, I gave…
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Literary Angler – Winter Trout Fishing
The weather looked pretty good – cool but no wind or rain. So I booked a day trip on the McKenzie with Clay Holloway for Friday, January 21st. Dennis Oster…
Literary Angler – Mosquito Lake
“It is remarkable, most remarkable, to approach unfamiliar water alone, to cast upon it’s untested-perhaps ungrounded-expectations, and to have them rewarded with a startling rise of a trout to…
