Whats Working For McCrary?

[caption id="attachment_7593" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="McCrary bets his living on the Marabou Tube"][/caption]   Marabou Tubes are putting them on the beach for McCrary clients. Adapting your fly choice  for winter run steelhead to summer run steelhead is simple.  Just keep fishing the Marabou Tube.  Local Portland guide Matt McCrary has his clients fishing ...

Huskey’s Annual Trip to “The Ditch”

Hello All!   Well another annual vacation down to the North Umpqua has come and gone, and Bryan and myself had a great time this year.  We gambled that the river would drop enough to be fishable while we were there.  It was borderline on Saturday, and got progressively better until blowing ...

Couple of Things I Learned on a Recent Steelhead Trip

1)      When renting a deflated pontoon boat on a Saturday, always check the bag holding the pontoons before you leave the raft company-they might stick you with the “Happy Meal”, which while highly visible in the event of a helicopter rescue operation, lacks the desired stealth when pursuing winter steelhead ...

Calibrated Eyeball Employed

Using the hand line method for landing steelhead never works out.  In Matt's case the hand line method was employed as his only remaining option.  As usual bad things happened and the fish was not landed.   Matt employed the "calibrated eyeball" to claim this fish in the mid to high ...

Fishing Rule #5 – Exhibit A

I decided to bring clarity to Rule #5 using a documented incident.  This incident clearly documents why it was necessary for me to exercise my right to invoke the rule. Here is the definition of Rule #5.  Its followed by exhibit A. Rule #5:  If angler should lose fish in the landing ...