Archive for February, 2012

Life of a Guide Photo Essay, Part 1

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

I like fish porn just as much as the next steelhead junkie, a great hero release shot of a chrome a@$ fish half submerged in steelhead green water does not, in any way, suck. However, most of the time spent steelheading is not spent photographing fish. It’s spent, tying, shopping, talking, writing, traveling, prepping, fishing and cleaning.

And so to the Small Stream Outfitters faithful, over the next year or so we aim to create a few photo essay posts, called “Life of a Guide”. It’s what we do, it’s what we love and here’s what it looks like.

row of steelhead egg patterns
Selection of modified lifters. Simple. Fast. Effective.

guide holding a steelhead egg pattern
Weather beaten hand holds a low water favorite.

February Means Native Steelhead Time

Sunday, February 5th, 2012

Greeting Anglers,

Rivers on the Central and North Oregon Coast have come into shape nicely over the last few days after a couple big storms earlier in January, bringing with it a really nice push of Native fish as well as the tail end of those early hatchery runs. We are A OK with the transition, as we love to chase these treasured native steelhead. We still have a handful of guide days left in March to chase these monsters. If you are interested, please give us a jingle at (503) 515 3533 or shoot us an email.

Eric with a big double stripe buck steelhead from the North Oregon Coast

Eric of Portland, Oregon took this great double stripe native buck steelhead on Feb 3rd. As most big fish do, it stayed deep and pulled like heck for a what seemed like an eternity before coming to hand. Nice job Eric!