Fly Fishing Insider Newsletter featuring Bass Bugging

Oregon Small Mouth Bass bit a little popper for Dave Denato.

Bass love banging top water bugs. You could be taking part in an exciting new fishery. Oregon has many varied opportunities for catching bass with your fly rod. There are the incomparable John Day and South Umpqua Rivers for Small Mouths. The Willamette and Columbia Rivers offer both Small mouth and Largemouth Bass. Central Oregon has myriad bass lakes. Barnes Butte, Crane Prairie, Rock Creek, Pine Hollow Reservoirs & Davis Lake

to name a few. Many Oregon bass lakes have clean, clear water. And they offer exciting sight fishing for the stealthy, observant fly angler.

Fishing along a shore line from a pontoon boat or float tube can be very productive. However seeing the bass you are fishing for is always a distinct advantage. The higher stance and longer range of the pontoon boat makes it the perfect craft for bass fly fishing.

Some lakes are best fished from shore. Often the best results can be obtained by two anglers working together. One will hike the shore and gain elevation to direct his buddy who casts from a pontoon boat. This teamwork works with both floating and sinking flies. The shoreline angler can get many shots also.

Bass often lay suspended where they can be coaxed to the surface with a well placed popper or hair bug. Bass-bugging with a fly rod is an explosive, visual sport. It is also a tactical one.

Bass are territorially aggressive ambush fish. Bass society is not a democracy. The big boys get territory of their choosing. They may not wish to share it with a smaller fish or a noisy, splashy, arrogant, fancy painted popping bug.   Big bass love to grab and crush things with their big bony, raspy mouths.

Each bass is different. Some are more aggressive than others.   Most can be goaded into striking. Many bass that ignore or run from the first presentation, can be harassed into striking with successive presentations. Sometime you can "pump a fish up" by presenting smaller and smaller flies until the fly matches the confidence level of the fish. One time I started on a bass with a #6 hard body popper, but after several fly reductions, took him with a skittered #14 Parachute Adams.
(to be continued in 06/10 The Fly Fishing Shop "Insider")                                            To Top

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Learn About Hatches
from Rick Hafele M.S.
June 22, 2002, 9am-4pm
Rick Hafele is the best know angling entomologist west of the Mississippi. He earned his Master of Science degree in 1979 from Oregon State University. In 1981 he and Dave Hughes burst on the scene with the first understandable hatch book for the western United States. It was appropriately called "The Complete Book of Western Hatches".

The book was an instant success and is now a classic. Rick is much in demand as a writer, lecturer and teacher. We are very lucky to be able to make him available to you.
This class will teach you what trout feed on in a stream environment. Understanding world of aquatic critters is a fascinating part of fly fishing. You will become a more productive trout fisher as you learn how to identify hatches and select the flies that match them. Rick is the master that will help you unlock the secrets.
This class will begin with a 3-hour slide show in our new class room. Rick will explain the different families of aquatic insects while you relax with snacks and soft drinks.
In the afternoon you will drive to one of the local streams where you will collect insects and identify them. You may explore several different streams. Rick will help you select flies that will represent these same insects to the trout.
Save yourself years. 10 students maximum. First come first served.

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543218	Scientific Anglers, Fly Line Dressing with Pad	$6.95
543232	Scientific Anglers, Fly Line Cleaning Pad	$3.99

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HATCHES-MA	"Learn About Hatches", Class June 22	7-hours, each student	$50

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