Eugene Oregon?

[ak_powder_monkey]

What do I need to be tying for trout in Oregon?

Anybody got some spots they wanna PM me or wanna go fishing?
I wanna catch stuff I can't in Alaska (cutts, browns, smallies, summer runs)

[WyoWill]

For trout in fast water, I've done well with generic attractors (adams, stimulators, any big floaty flies with rubber legs) and bead head nymphs (hares ear, princes). You'll have to get more realistic with your flies if you are fishing slower water. For steelhead, I've always done best fishing with heavy nymphs and an indicator--although run timing and location becomes much more important. My best steelhead nymph is tied with tons of weight, a copper/black chenille body, brown rubber legs and a copper bead, size 6. I'll throw heavy whooly buggers of all colors at small mouth.

Go ducks!

[spanghew]

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I hear there's a new translation . . .

[neckdeep]

If you go west on 126, its an hour or so out to the coast and you end up in Florence, OR which is in the center of America's largest network of sand dunes, the Oregon Dunes Nat'l Rec area. These dunes are extensively forested and have many lakes, both large and small, and they contain bass and coastal cutts. Ten Mile, Tahkenitch, and Siltcoos lakes are among the northwest's best bass fisheries, but you will need some sort of boat or float tube to access this stuff as most shores are heavily forested.

And, of course, if you really like fishing for 8-18 inch redside rainbows alongside ample crowds of suburbanite Portlanders(no offense meant, I love P-town), there's this little river called the Mckenzie, which runs pretty close by to Eugene. Kind of a letdown after being able to sight fish to 20+ inch leopard bows and dollies up in the isolation of coastal AK.

If you are going to be in Eugene over the winter, I encourage you to try the coastal creeks for wild winter steelies. The ocean current keeps the coast relatively warm(warm enough to fish comfortably, at least) all winter long.The vast majority of Oregon's coastal anglers are gear and bait chuckin meathounds and they totally ignore the streams without hatchery programs. You can have an entire creek with 100-150 wild steelies hidden along it all to yourself. I like to indicator nymph a Babine Special when fishing small water for winter runs. There are some very good creeks in the headlands north of the dunes and most estuaries and lower rivers have a few good tribs.

Want something really different? Learn to fish the estuaries and jetties along the coast. Searun cutts, perch, rockfish, lingcod, dungeness crab and a variety of clams.