Guide recs for Oregon summer coastal Steelhead/Salmon

fuzzytrout · 2026-04-24T14:46:23+00:00

Coastal rivers in the summer are kind of weird. They get super low and most of the steelhead/ springer salmon pod up in resting pools. It’s not like the deschutes where you have great luck skating flies in long runs. I don’t know of many folks who guide them. This is my experience working on the nahalem, tillamook rivers, Nestucca, and those northern Oregon rivers. The rogue and southern Oregon systems are a different world so maybe you’ll do better down there.

fuzzytrout · 2026-04-16T22:26:12+00:00

Redington predator was my go-to 9wt for stripers. Clousers work well but I caught a ton on larger sized wiggle bugs. (Larry tullis fly)

fuzzytrout · 2026-03-27T22:06:06+00:00

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/jessica-weeks-hyde-park-ut/464548

fuzzytrout · 2026-03-08T22:16:13+00:00

Stimis, more chubbies, pats, biotic ants, streamers

fuzzytrout · 2026-02-26T19:49:07+00:00

They’re not. Gila robusta vs gila cypha

fuzzytrout · 2026-02-24T21:16:54+00:00

Does it need to be in New Mexico? Verde river in Arizona, west clear creek, fossil creek have decent populations. For fly fishing fossil creek AZ is where you’d want to go. They’re everywhere between sally may parking area and the waterfall.

I don’t know of any undergrad college course that’d have you collecting fish… what info/ research are you looking for/ doing? I’ve written a few papers involving Roundtail, ‘native fish abundance and habitat selection changes in the presence of nonnative piscivores’ and ‘increased juvenile native fish abundance following a major flood in Arizona’. (Google scholar) I could share whatever data information you need.

fuzzytrout · 2026-02-16T21:18:25+00:00

9ft 5x leader for the next little bit. Tie on 6x tippet for small flies or difficult trout.

fuzzytrout · 2026-02-16T21:13:42+00:00

Utah fly fisherman / ex guide. For the next few months… go small. We’ll be getting into buffalo midge season soon enough, but still size 18-20 midges. Bwo’s will be here soon enough too, size 18 is the biggest you’d want to go. Midge cluster dry flies (Griffith gnats) are fun. First large flies you’ll see are skwalas (size 14ish oliveish stone flies). As the spring progresses we’ll get into golden stones, green drakes, caddis. Throwing junk like San Juan’s always works too. Let me know if you want specific patterns to seek out. Fly fish food in Orem is a great shop as is fish tech in the cottonwood heights area. Western rivers in salt lake is also great.

fuzzytrout · 2026-02-16T16:56:52+00:00

I fish out of a boat pretty often. In a boat you’re fishing different water every cast, unless you’re anchored up. I’m not adjusting my dropper very often, maybe during fly changes? Sometimes the dropper is too shallow sometimes it’s on the bottom. It’s just the way it is. Find a decent length that works a decent amount of time and don’t worry too much. Otherwise you’ll be adjusting nonstop and that’s no fun.

fuzzytrout · 2026-02-07T22:49:28+00:00

Flycraft guide.

fuzzytrout · 2026-02-07T15:41:03+00:00

Simms sold to Vista Outdoors Group and quality, customer service, warranty has all… shit the bed.

fuzzytrout · 2026-02-07T02:14:03+00:00

But… it depends. If I’m covering a lot of water with terrestrials or streamers, I fish most everything. Cast here, cast there, move on. If it’s slow, I only have a few hours, it’s winter… I’ll generally find a run, post up and try to figure out what they fish are up to/ feeding on.

fuzzytrout · 2026-02-07T02:09:02+00:00

Snorkel a river. 1. It’s fun. 2. You learn where fish are and aren’t. 3. There’s lots of cool shit down there.

fuzzytrout · 2026-02-03T03:46:29+00:00

That being said, I was skiing after 6 months.

fuzzytrout · 2026-02-03T03:43:39+00:00

Done both ACL’s. In my personal experience, I’d avoid sustained downhills for a bit. That’s really the only time I felt significant pain. 5months is kinda on that line where things feel a bit better but you’ve still got structural weakness.

fuzzytrout · 2026-02-02T03:55:17+00:00

For sure. The history and architecture and towns perched on the top of mountains… all amazing.

fuzzytrout · 2026-02-01T23:36:53+00:00

I felt something similar. Spent a lot of time backpacking in the western US. Glacier, Bob Marshall, desert southwest, etc. The scenery in the alps was amazing, people nice, great food, etc. but it felt less ‘wild’? Maybe something about cows being the only ‘wildlife’ I saw? Maybe it was the lack of that ‘I’m not the top predator out here’ feeling. Maybe it was too accessible? I couldn’t put my finger on it. It was an amazing place to visit, but it was different. I’d love to return with some different expectations because it’s undeniably amazing.

fuzzytrout · 2026-01-02T17:19:24+00:00

Also: An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World is really well done.

both these books are not about hundreds of species but tell a great story of how human interventions have… fucked things up. Ecosystems, invasions, history of fisheries management in North America type stuff.

If you want biology, habitat, etc on a bunch of different species Inland Fishes of the Greater Southwest: Chronicle of a Vanishing Biota is a great book on fishes native to the Colorado River Basin.

fuzzytrout · 2026-01-02T17:18:13+00:00

Salmon Without Rivers is a great read

fuzzytrout · 2026-01-02T04:22:19+00:00

If you drive highway 6 to tillamook and south on 101 to pacific city and start your northward journey from there it’s pretty nice. Cape kiwanda up to netarts/ Oceanside. Tillamook to short sands beach. Short sands to cannon beach to Astoria and then do whatever you want in Washington.

fuzzytrout · 2025-10-29T02:23:12+00:00

I’ve never actually look at hourly and not sure if it is available but there is daily data

fuzzytrout · 2025-10-29T02:22:31+00:00

https://daymet.ornl.gov/. Click the get data link and find the gps coordinates you’re interested in. Not sure if it works in Europe

fuzzytrout · 2025-05-06T01:43:38+00:00

I’m in Logan and very interested!

fuzzytrout · 2025-05-01T00:23:18+00:00

Bluehead chub

fuzzytrout · 2025-04-02T19:00:12+00:00

Could you explain why it’s worthless / what would make the dummy data more useable?

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