Oregon Fly Fishing Report – Small Stream Outfitters & Guides

Greetings Anglers,

It’s been a really fun February with lots of fish, very few days lost to high water and generally good fishing conditions. Fishing for hatchery steelhead is tapering off quickly and is all but done. That’s ok with us as the native chrome big boys and girls have begun to arrive. We’re hooking at least one 15+ pound chrome steelhead everyday, but they are proving tough to land. One out of Four seems about right for these insanely hard fighting fish. It makes the few fish to hand that much better.

If you’re interested in chasing these guys give us a call at 503.515.3533. These fish will be available through Mid-April on the Oregon Coast.

Tight Lines,
Jesse
Check out Our Facebook Page for more photos of steelhead from January and February, as well as a few new additions to our Guide’s Life photo essay.

Rich Youngers displays a stunnigly beautiful Oregon Coast wild Winter steelhead

Ryan’s first steelhead on a fly. He fought this fish for 35 minutes and chased it 1/2 mile downstream. An incredible fish and fight. We Love our job!

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.

Selection of modified lifters. Simple. Fast. Effective.

Weather beaten hand holds a low water favorite.

Hi Anglers,

Check out our New September-October Photo Gallery. This gallery includes images from our October Grand Slam trips. It’s a rare chance to chase Steelhead, Sea-Run Cutthroat, Chinook and Coho Salmon in the same day all on a fly! View the Gallery

Stay tuned for our November Big Chinook Gallery coming next month!

Interested in a Guided trip? Our Booking Update is below:
We are currently booked through the end of November. We are now booking hatchery Winter Steelhead for Dec/Jan and Native Steelhead for Feb/Mid-April. There will be a rate increase beginning Jan 1, 2012. Any trip booked before Dec. 31 will honor 2011 pricing. Book now and save yourself some $.

Tight Lines,
Small Stream Outfitters

Our Oregon Coast February Steelhead Gallery has been added to the website.

Take a peek at some of the great fish customers landed during the month of February. The weather was at times, a challenge, but well worth it for some spectacular days of steelheading.

January steelheaders are hearty souls, braving the worst mother nature has to offer, all in hopes of catching a steelhead. Weather throughout the month of January was fairly typical marked by one long period of high, dirty, blown out rivers in the middle of the month and the rest of the month the river was up, green and fished great. The Coastal river blow out in the middle of the month marked the end of the early hatchery runs and first big push of native steelhead. Numbers of fish dropped off slightly throughout the month, but the quality increased tremendously. We hooked a lot of big fish late in January, landed a few and lost a bunch. Those big ones have a habit of trying to get away and often succeeding. January was a great month of steelheading on the Oregon Coast and we expect the good fishing to continue right on through April.

The Oregon Coast Winter Steelhead season of 2010/2011 is in full swing! We still have a few late season dates left, but they won’t last long. To arrange a guide trip for Winter 2010-2011 steelhead action, give us a call at 503-515-3533 or email us! We’ll be fishing these agressive, acrobatic fish through April.

Click here or on the images below to view this month’s photo slide show.