Fishing Reports, Upcoming Events, A Book Review
Welcome to your Flyline Member Matters Page on the new FCO website! We hope you will send in your fishing reports, notices of fly fishing events, member news, and other items of interest to the FCO membership for posting on this page or in our other news areas of the website. Please send any items…
Editor’s Note: Our Conservation Chair, Dave Moskowitz, provides us with the latest data on salmon and steelhead runs on the Columbia. Please take the time to read his notes that include caveats related to the numbers and policy (or lack thereof). Thanks Dave for sharing this vital, albeit depressing, information for the conservation-minded fly fisher.…
Editor’s Note: This story from our Program Chair, Ross Beatty, reveals a few tidbits (or should I say tiny breadcrumbs) on his strategies for success catching massive Columbia River carp. He and FCO Treasurer, Ken Betschart, got real carpy with fellow members of this secretive fishery society. I hope I can figure out the password…
Member Matters Thank you, members, for a very successful auction last month! We had a great turn out and the bidding was hot. We enjoyed the fantastic hors oeuvres and dinner from Chef Philippe Boulot and the MAC. We broke a record again with the Keith Hansen Memorial Paddle Raise collecting nearly $30,000 to split…
Today I was reminded of all the really fabulous things we see when we head out to fish. Ross & I were up the Columbia Gorge hiking through a giant dry field in route to the river. All of a sudden to our surprise 4 little heads popped up from behind a pile of boulders. …
