I hope you all are staying safe, healthy, and at least somewhat sane now that we are in the second month of Covid-19 stay at home restrictions. The Hillas family is managing to survive the quarantine but we all will be happy to get out of the house. Fishless So Far Needless to…
Category: President’s Message
President’s Message – April 2020
I hope this message finds all of you safe and healthy in these challenging times. The Covid-19 pandemic has transformed our world and changed our daily lives. Businesses are shuttered, schools are closed, and many of our outdoor recreation opportunities have been severely limited. Our new normal involves too much bad news and a whole…
President’s Message – March 2020
I begin this month’s president’s message with a good news/bad news update on my 2020 fishing. The good news is that I went fishing for the first time this year. It was a day trip on the Nehalem River swinging flies through promising runs under mostly blue skies with Rick Pay and our guide, Alex…
President’s Message – February 2020
Although the calendar has only turned to February, and high winter water levels have washed out several scheduled steelhead fishing trips, the thermometer hit 60 degrees in my neighborhood last Friday afternoon. That unseasonal warmth offered a brief reminder that the earth’s axis has begun tilting toward summer. In that spirit, I confirmed the dates…
President’s Message – January 2020
Welcome to 2020! I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday season and is enjoying the first few days of the new year. No fishing trips to report so far, although I purchased my new Oregon fishing license and the various endorsements and tags in hopes of putting them to use on a winter steelhead…
President’s Message – December 2019
I’m writing this on Thanksgiving morning, so it’s appropriate to give thanks for many things, not least of which is the many fishing opportunities I had in 2019. Frigid days chasing winter steelhead on the coast and on the Sandy River, less frigid (but equally unproductive) days chasing steelhead in early spring on the Willamette,…
President’s Message – November 2019
Setting the clocks back to standard time always feels like a fast forward to winter. The extra morning light is outweighed by the early onset of nightfall, and for me, a serious drop off in fishing. When the calendar page turns to November, I am usually retreating indoors to spend a more time reading about…
President’s Message
Happy Fall Everyone! Tis the season for changing colors, shorter days, the return of the Old Fashioned to my cocktail lineup, and, of course, fishing for steelhead. I was fortunate enough to be invited on a three-day Deschutes steelhead camp trip early in September. Todd Harris of Harris Anglers picked up three of us on…
President’s Message – September 2019
Changing Seasons Despite the mini-heat wave in Portland, I am already seeing signs of fall, as some of the trees in our neighborhood are beginning to show their colors. Earlier this month I visited my son in upstate New York, where we woke to a chill in the early morning air before fishing for smallmouth…
President’s Message – August 2019
I hope everyone can join us at the annual member picnic on August 13th at the Westmoreland Casting Pond in Sellwood. If you haven’t registered for this event, please do so on the website. The club hosts the picnic (it is BYO – don’t forget your favorite beverage) so there is no cost for members…
