Oregon’s powerful waves churn up sand and make a variety of foods available for the surf perch who call this tumultuous, high-energy environment their home. The diet of surf perch species commonly includes: shrimp, small crustaceans, amphipods, algae, small crabs, mussels, marine worms and mole crabs. Surf fishing offers [...]
On a crisp morning in March, two fly fishermen work Davis Lake in the Oregon High Cascades. To the north, and rising through low clouds are the snowy peaks of Mount Bachelor and the South and Middle Sisters. Before suffering a series of setbacks, Davis Lake was once a premier [...]
Odell Lake is a 3,582 acre natural lake which rests in a trough created by glacial action some 10 to 12,000 years ago during the Pleistocene Epoch. At an elevation of 4,787 feet, Odell is just south of Highway 58 in the Deschutes National Forest, and is close to Willamette [...]
A Fall run, male Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), has arrived at its natal stream and is making its way to the gravel spawning bed from which it was born. After having spent between one and three years at sea, these anadromous fish begin their return journey to the clean-flowing freshwater [...]
