What flies are we fishing? June 2018

Here is where we will be fishing and what flies we will be using in June! Joe The Metolius is a great place to fish in June! With it...

Here is where we will be fishing and what flies we will be using in June!

Joe

The Metolius is a great place to fish in June! With it being a spring fed fishery it holds at a steady temp and flow throughout the year, and this time of year when the weather's a scorcher, its nice stepping into a gin clear, ice cold river. 

It is the start of Green Drakes, so I'll carry a variety of sizes ranging from 14-18.  Also on the cloudier days you'll see PMDs and BWOs coming off in the evenings. I'll have a range of Parachute PMDs and BWOs,  also a handful of Rusty Spinners sizes 16-20. Brown Elk Hair Caddis will also be a fly to keep handy. 

For under the surface, the nymphs I'll have Two Bit Hookers Red Size 18. Black Zebra Midges 18-22. CDC Guides Choice Hares Ear 16-18. Kaufman Golden Stones Rubber Legs 6-10.  Also some flashy lightning bugs, in purple or blue sizes 16-20.

The Section above Allingham Bridge has opened on the 22nd of May, and is all open to fish, REMEMBER TO PINCH THOSE BARBS. We do offer a great amount of barbless flies here at BigY. 

Cameron

June is all about trout fishing on the Deschutes.  The salmonfly hatch is waning, the crowds are lessening, steelhead not in the water enough to attract boats.  So I am going to float it a couple of times and use.

Something special about dusk on the Deschutes

Elk Hair Caddis--All Summer long

Parachute PMD--Easy to see and usually prevalent.
Green Butt Skunk--Love to swing for some bigger trout in the right water
BH Prince--Always good for a whitey just to warm up
BH Hot Wire Caddis--Great trailer for BH Prince
Stimulator/Copper John--Hopper/Dropper also good all summer long.

Ben 

June 1st I am hitting the Klickitat for a day float, then overnighter the 2nd and 3rd and many friday day trips. I will be fishing nymphing setups mostly that target steelhead. Not doing trout beads yet, as there shouldn't be much if any spawning.

Pats Rubber Legs--an oldie but a goodie
Egg Sucking Leeches--Steelhead love leeches and eggs, double whammy
Circus Caddis--hitting the attraction and imitation,
Egg Sucking Stone--again egg and bug
Outlaw Prince

Nikolai

This time of year, when trout are full of salmonflies and stoneflies, I like to sneak out onto a mountain lake or two, and do some stillwater fishing.  Andrew lent me a kayak the other day, so a buddy and I paddled out onto Lost Lake and punched some loops. We camped, so we were able to fish last and first light, which can be great times to fish on the lake. There’s not much better than being on a glassy mountain lake at 6am, after a hot cup of joe. When it’s hot at Lost, bugs hatch! So a sunhat and ample dry flies is my favorite afternoon program. I’ve had some great days at Lost in the Spring, so when I go back, I’ll be sure to bring:

Renegades / Double Renegades (my most successful flies at Lost)
Foam Ant / Black Ant / Parachute Ants, Black.
PMDs / Parachute PMDs
Hex Cripple (just in case the timing is right)
Woolly Buggers, black, Olive/Black
Thin Mints (I’ve had huge success on thin mints in the Mt Hood Lakes).

Rob

June is a month with a variety of opportunities.  The rivers of southwest Washington  have summer steelhead arriving in bulk and water temperatures are conducive to floating line tactics including surface presentations. On some rivers like  the Washougal  the window of opportunity is narrow, only early June provides good fishing.  After that the water is too low and warm. Rains in June that bump river levels are the best time to go. Slightly larger rivers like the Kalama maintain enough flow and cool water to fish late into July.

Both rivers are well fished with 9ft 6in or 10 foot  rods in 6-8 weight.

8lb maxima tippets  are perfect and typical steelhead flies like muddler minnow and green butt skunks are as good as it gets.

By the second week of June the American  Shad run is also peaking. Though not highly prized by fly anglers, they are still great fun they take flies aggressively , fight hard and are  plentiful. Both single and double handed rods in 6 and 7 wt are good choices. Light sink tips and lightly weighted  flies are the best approach but floating lines and weighted flies can also be productive. Small bright and flashy patterns  like our Shad Dart and the Crazy Charlie will put lots of fish on the bank. The best access to this fishery is below the dams between Portland and the Tri-cities.  Look them along any seams created by obstructions or irregularities  in the bank just like you'd  expect trout to be in.

June is a great month to fish here in the Northwest, get out and have fun.

Andrew

Get some high mountain mojo

I will be hitting up some small streams and high mountain lakes.  I am not looking for monsters.  There is something simple and majestic about catching pan-sized brook trout in a beautiful high-elevation setting, especially knowing that I will likely see zero people, and occasionally I find a spot where there are zero signs of people having been there.  Looking forward to getting out my backpack, not looking forward to covering myself in DEET.  Lots of hiking and mosquitoes in my future this month.  I will use the following flies:

Hot Butt Elk Hair Caddis
Yellow Sally
Flying Ant
Turk's Power Ant
Irresistible Adams
Marabou Midge (in red, if the brookies won't move off the bottom of the lake)