It has been a great year with fantastic clients like
you! We just wanted to thank you for
your participation in our 2013 season with Water Time Outfitters. It has been busy with some amazing
highlights. We are glad that you could
be a part of it. We look forward to
spending time on the water with you in 2014.
Here are a few of the many highlights from the year.
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| The first one of the day. |
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| The BIG ONE! |
Clive Furrows
of San Diego with several amazing wild fish from one exceptional day on the N. Oregon coast. After many years fishing BC and around the
world Clive landed his biggest steelhead ever on a #7 weight spey rod. By the measurements this fish easily went
23.3lbs. Congrats Clive!
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Congrats
to Adam Straw who landed his first steelhead on the fly rod this year on the
Clackamas River. He was swinging a
marabou spey pattern with a sink tip and hooked two in one morning. Adam had that smile on his face for at least
a week!
Jim Drew (photo to right) snuck this dandy
chromer out of the run right behind a fly fishing legend. He did it so non-chalantly that I had to give
him mega credit. His friend and fly
fishing guru wanted Jim’s fly after the dust settled from the camera shutters.
Happy New
Year!
Fly fishing for shad in June was a definite highlight- what a blast! We did ½ day trips morning and evening for shad and averaged 40 hook ups each 4 hours. We had many doubles, saw huge sturgeon jump right in front of us and even caught some dandy smallmouth bass. 
Tanner Crandall got in on the action and hauled in this whopper shad. (Left)Jon Hill worked over the shad pretty good but was surprised when he brought in this red eyed devil- a hard fighting Smallmouth Bass.
Deschutes River Trout fishing was
good this year. We had so much fun! A favorite trip was hanging out in one camp
for three days. There were so many
caddis in July- the word blizzard comes close to describing it!
Don
Lewis and Henry M. had a productive trip on the lower D. this year in early September. Don commented: “What is wrong, I can’t get
this one in”… that’s because it’s a big strong steelie in it’s prime Don!
Jeff
Evershed hit it just right this fall on the lower Deschutes; one of those rare
days when it is overcast and a bit rainy.
We stopped counting after he had 10 hookups on steelhead. Fish were rolling everywhere!
An epic morning on the Deschutes(right), we watched 30 bighorn sheep across the river,
had deer 15 yards away and landed this dandy steelhead and lost one the first
stop of the day!
Thanks again for all the wonderful days on the water this year. There are so many, many more stories and pics that are also highlights.
All the very
best to you and yours for 2014!
From the Crew at Water Time Outfitters: Rob Crandall, Gil Muhleman, Marty Smith and Kenny Kiley
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