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Article: Winter fly waters.(Recreation)(Winter fly-fishing opportunities abound in Oregon's waterways)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- January 27, 2005
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Byline: Mike Stahlberg The Register-Guard
It's mid-January in Oregon. Frozen frost coats the needles on a ponderosa pine overhanging a favored trout hole on the Deschutes River below Bend. Two days later, amid temperatures in the mid-60s, golden light from the late afternoon soon reflects off the water surrounding an angler in the Middle Fork Willamette River near Oakridge.
In cold weather and warm, east of the Cascades and west, anglers are wading into Oregon's year-round fly-fishing opportunities.
And why not? Fish aren't bears - they eat all winter long.
Once limited to a six-month window of opportunity, fly-fishers in recent years ...