Fly Fishing Insider Newsletter featuring Polarized Fishing Glasses

"Guided by Vision"

Some chicks in sunglasses do catch steelhead.

Polarized glasses enhance your vision by reducing glare. Being able to see into the water that you are fishing is a tremendous advantage. Wading becomes safer. Fish become easier to locate. Their habits become more apparent. You become a more successful angler. Colors are richer. Edges are sharper. Distances and depths are more discernable. Your enjoyment of fly fishing is enhanced by your ability to more fully perceive the beauty of your surroundings.

Barely visible bonefish without polarized glasses.

Glare Happens Outdoor enthusiasts have long suffered with the blinding hassle of glare. The problem is, anytime you combine light with a reflective surface you're going to get glare. But not anymore, not with polarized glasses. On the river, on the trail or on the road, whatever you choose to do, if you do it outside our polarized sunglasses will have you seeing the world in a whole new light.

How Does Polarization Work? Polarized lenses utilize polarized filtering technology to diffuse the concentrated light waves. This filtering process eliminates 99% of the reflected glare. Polarized lenses effectively eliminate horizontally reflected glare and the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays. The end result is greater clarity, definition, brilliant color transmission and reduced eyestrain. You need...........

Plainly visible bonefish with Action Opics fishing glasses.

Progress On Women's Clinic The Stonefly Maidens Fly Club enlisted the services Katherine Hart (FFF Certified Master Casting Instructor) to help prepare them for the Club sponsored Women's Fly Casting Clinic to be held August 16. Participating in training are Carmen Smith, Lisa Greber, Lisa Wassgren, Ramona Davis, Kimberly Wilcox and Tilda Runner. They are learning how to help other
women learn to fly cast. Saturday's session was about how to develop fly line speed efficiently. Terrific progress was made by all.

The John Day River is red hot for small Mouth Bass according to John Ecklund of Little Creek Outfitters. Judging by the picture that he sent us, the bass are big and some of the clientele is pretty good looking too. Looks like our friends Marty and Josh are having a good time rowing boats and guiding. Don't forget that if you are heading that way, we've got the bugs!

Derrek Fergus prefers to do his baby sitting on the river with a fly rod in hand. We got the evidence via email from Hank Hosfield. We figured Derrek needs someone to help guide his back cast or possibly the kid's a lookout in case they are spotted by a couple of tackle manufacturers that think that Derreck is working hard for them. Well of course he is. It's a day of field testing and tackle research. Someone has to do it. Keep up the good work.
"We love you, man".

Local Streams
The west slope rivers are dropping to summer levels and rising to summer temperatures. There are summer steelhead and spring Chinooks around in fishable numbers. the Sandy seems to have better numbers of fish than the Clackamas. Main concentration is below Cedar Creek. That is where the main concentration of anglers is too. That leaves a lot of river nearly uninhabited. Closer to home some 16 year old kid was bragging to a tourist that he caught a 21 inch rainbow on power bait from one of the

"wild fish sanctuary" streams where bait fishing is prohibited. Ain't that nice.

Local Lakes
All the local lakes; Trillium, Frog, Clear, Timothy, Rock Creek, Pine Hollow, Lost and Laurence are open and accessible. All have been stocked with catchables, some with brood trout. Hatches are at peak with Midges, Damsels, Caddis & Callibaetis Mayflies competing with Queen Carpenter Ants for attention from the trout. Marc Williamson sent us this picture of a nice rainbow he caught at trillium Lake. Have you ever seen a more idyllic setting? Might be a glimpse of paradise. Enjoy your summer vacation Marc, you earned it.

Trillium Lake

Think rattle snakes are abundant in Central Oregon? This picture of a Florida culvert was sent to us by Don Clay.
I'll bet that is one heck of a buzzing noisy place. Kind of makes Elmer The Camp Guard Snake seem pretty trivial. Now I know where I can get plenty of re-enforcements in case Elmer needs help guarding my favorite steelhead camp. Don't be too worried, Deschutes Canyon rattle snakes aren't usually very active until after dark.


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