Rogue River Morels and Fly Fishing

Trout are really on the take right now.

Rogue River March Steelhead

Although the weather may not show it, winter is still here in the Rogue Valley. Sunny, mild days persist with daytime temperatures near the 70°F mark. During this stretch the lack of any measurable rainfall has left the rivers low and fishable; and right on time the winter steelhead are ever arriving and catchable.

Bless with this treat of fishable waters through early March, I have ventured out on both the Rogue and Applegate Rivers. From early-on plug, bait, and spoon high water efforts, the fishing method as of late has been with flies. Once again patterns such as the Carpetbagger Nymphs, bead head G.R. Hare’s Ears and Prince Nymphs are taking steelhead. I reckon it is the same old melody, but those buggy flies do really do the trick on the above mentioned rivers.

Steelhead that grabbed a buggy, double bead natural stonefly nymph.

This steelhead had a chunk of the upper tail missing?

Good looking early winter steelhead fillet.

A good combination matching steelhead fillet with bacon.

Applegate River fly-fishing. Small water with good color.

Tailing a beautiful steelhead.

An interesting hot bead head stonefly nymph.

Rogue River early winter chrome.

A nice long buck steelhead.

A Rogue River steelhead captured with the Midnight Fire Carpetbagger Stone.

A Carpetbagger Stonefly Nymph in need of some repair.

A Rogue steelhead showing his nasty biting jaw.