Nice, Bruce. Say hello to John and Amy if you're in Maupin!

 

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Any plans this weekend ?

 

All I know for certain is some couple is taking me and the wife out for dinner 😏🤣

 

Are the foam flies safely stored in a Tupperware container?

 

Yawn. Anyway...

No Ducati's Bruce? Cold and wet incoming!

 

Youth is wasted on the young 😏🤣
Enough flies in that box to last me a couple seasons no need to get greedy 🤣

 

Mix a water in there…

 

Can't leave you guys alone for a few hours ...

Those will fish Bruce!!
Your going to the Deschutes with a half a box of flies? That's confidence

I can see my next therapy session my therapist telling me to "be like Bruce" .... maybe we should get shirts??!!


Mike

 

That’s the fullest that box has been in some time lol
Thanks for cleaning things up Mike 🙏🏻

 

Nice to see this cleaned up. Always a bummer to see chompers posting hero shots.

 

Super buggy Bruce

 

I always miss all the juicy stuff

 

Did the river Sept 16-22 and unawares to me, they had started jacking the flows up to lower Billy Chinook for some spillway repairs about the time I tossed in the boat. Fishing was extremely slow, and the wading was a bit tough in some of my habitual waters. Most I quizzed on the way down responded with "nothing." I got like 9 tugs in a weeks' worth of early AM late PM angling over typically productive waters. Got solid into 4 fish and only landed 2. Such trips are a great experience, but I'm old, remember tons of 7 and 8 fish days, and am there to hook into and land fish. My thoughts are that stable flows furnish the best angling. Four to 500 cfs short term variations in flows don't help much and they're doing a lot of adjustments throughout a day. Good luck if one's going to give it a go.

 

Have a good trip Bruce! October Caddis will be rockin when ya get back to the koots.

 

There’s been a few here and there definitely a little late this year
let’s get out soon

 

Nice flies! They will fish well and there are some October caddis around. I was there earlier this week. After two other trips on the lower river in the drift boat, this time I left it at home and camped four days just below Maupin. Fished some water that I had not focused on before and landed three fish. Don’t forget to pick up some Lum Plums when you’re in town. Amy will know who is the biggest fan of that fly from Washington State who helped her source a new supply of the yarn. It was raining hard Thursday morning which was a nice change. Have a fun trip!

 

That's a whole lot of downriver miles in the jet boat, Bruce. How do you get thru the dams?

 

That’s why I host the trips with Travis three drift boats one swamper 😎