The Guide's Life- Westfly Interview with Rob Crandall

Listen to this inteview with Rob Crandall a fly fishing guide of 20 years, discussing life as a fishing guide.  Interview is with Scott Richmond of westfly.com Westfly has lots of great online information on fly fishing Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.

Location is the Clackamas River not far from Portland, Oregon. 

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See more about Rob Crandall at: www.watertimeoutfitters.com

Clackamas River Fishing Update

Fishing has been consistent in April on the Clackamas River.  We've been getting into fish everyday.  We are fishing both swung fly strategies and indicator techniques.  Both are working.  We have wild winter steelhead, broodstock hatchery steelhead and early summer steelhead in the river right now. 

With water flows up and down we are watching for good flow levels to get on the river.  The weather has been much warmer and the water temperatures are slowly increasing and now reaching around 45.  Canadian Geese are paired up and are all over the river banks.  We'll soon be seeing their fuzzy little offspring.  Each day we are seeing bald eagles.  Earlier in the week two deer crossed the river right in front of us. 

Spring is here and the colors are vivid as the green buds bloom out on river foliage.  It's a great time of year to be fishing the Clackamas River. 

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Clackamas Steelhead Fishing

When the water is the right level, fishing has been very good on the Clackamas River.  Water temperatures have warmed up a bit and there  are a good mix of wild, broodstock and summer steelhead in the river now.
Here Adrian shows off one of his biggest steelhead ever.  This fish put up an amazing battle fighting so hard and rarely coming near the surface; we almost thought we had an early Chinook.  It would have taped out near 36-38".

Big wild hen steelhead, nice job Adrian!

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