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Literary Angler – Fall Fishing
Editor’s Note: This fall Club members ventured to other western states to wet flies and entice wily trout and powerful salmon. Thank you to John Pyrch for his trout hunt…
Conservation Corner – December 2018
The Spirit of Giving (for Fish) This exceptionally warm, exceptionally dry year is coming to a close. Reflecting back, we saw dismal steelhead returns, low flows in our rivers, and…
May Meeting – Annual Flyfisher Foundation Fundraising Auction
Always a good time and some great items will be auctioned off including hosted trips, fly fishing gear, some nice wine, and other stuff you can’t live without. Registration Deadline is May 1st.
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President’s Message – November 2018
Hello Fly Fishers! Today I am mapping my assault route for the first Native Fish Society Trout-A-Thon. Oregon is home to 9 species of wild trout and I have 48…
Member Matters – November 2018
Membership Opportunities This is a quiet time of year for membership activities. But, it is a real opportunity for new members, since if they join now; they are paid through…
Book Review: The Feather Thief, by Kirk Wallace Johnson; Viking Books (2018)
Editor’s Note: Periodically, the Literary Angler features a member’s thoughts on books or articles they believe will be of interest to fellow fly fishers. Foundation Board member, Dr. Mark Metzdorff…
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Conservation Corner – News from NW NGOs
Fish conservation news has been pretty dismal of late with very low returns of salmon and steelhead throughout the west. Our northwest-based NGOs are out there advocating for wild fish,…
April Meeting – Matt Kaylor – FCO “Tom McAllister” OSU Graduate Scholarship Recipient
Matt is a PhD candidate in the Fisheries Science program at OSU. His research focuses on how stream food web structure and productivity can regulate salmonid productivity.
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Columbia River Steelhead Update 10/2018
October 2018 In what may be a precedent-setting action on August 24th, Oregon and Washington “closed the Columbia to steelhead fishing” (their words) as the initially optimistic 2018 forecast for…