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Your heart leaps as you watch a large native Steelhead snatch your skating dry fly on the Grande Ronde River. Kids laugh with excitement as they land their first Rainbow on the Wallowa. You realize you just missed a nice strike at your fly because you were too busy taking in the rugged beauty of the Imnaha canyon . These are just a sample of the experiences you can have in the territory the Nez Perce called “Land of Winding Water.”
Welcome to the Joseph Fly Shoppe located in the beautiful Wallowa Valley. We are a full service destination shop which specializes in a large selection of high performance fly equipment, unbeatable customer service, and absolute dedication to the graceful art of fly angling! Let us help make your Eastern Oregon fishing experience a memorable one!
News: In 2008, we sold our guide business to Winding Waters River Expeditions. This comprehensive guide service offers a wide range of whitewater and fishing trips on some of the areas most fantastic rivers including the Grand Ronde, Wallowa, Salmon, and Snake rivers. Please explore the Winding Waters River Expeditions web site: www.windingwatersrafting.com and give them a call at 877-426-7238 / 541-432-0747
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FISHING SUMMARY
8/27/10 - A cold front has moved in, it was summer yesterday... feels like fall today. With the swift weather change it might take a couple days for the fish to adjust. We had some reports today of good fishing for trout on Imnaha River in the Nature Conservancy section a couple miles above the town of Imnaha. Steelhead season opens Sep 1, t-minus four days!!!
8/22/10- Cooler weather is reminding us that fall is on the way, the fishing has been good. The Wallowa river continues to fish well and some bigger fish are being caught using larger stone nymph patterns and small lightning bug or copper john droppers. The cooler temps should improve things overall help bring some of those big fish up to the surface.
On the Grande Ronde we are still getting reports of people catching wild steelies by Troy. Steelhead numbers are still looking good with the counts over Lower Granite Dam (the last dam before fish can get into the Ronde) at 21,607 fish, compared to 10,278 at the same time last year (we checked the count from 5/1 to 8/21 for both years). Trout and bass can be caught as well!
8/15/10- Well the steel head have arrived! We have 5 reported steelhead caught on the Oregon side of the Grande Ronde. Trout fishing remains steady on the Wallowa using the same patterns in the previous report.
8/11/10 -Trout fishing on the Wallowa River in the Canyon has been very good the past few days. Recent rains have cooled and raised the river slightly. A flyfisher on a guided trip did very well on a muddler minow - catching 12 - 15 fish, the largest a fat 13' native rainbow. Two other accomplished nymph flyfishers (strike indicator 5' above fairly good size split shot followed by two flies -- in other words fishing on the bottom of fairly fast, structured water) used a size 8 possie bugger with a size 16 lightning bug dropper to catch 30 fish between 8AM and noon -- the largest a 20"+ hog. They also caught fish on hoppers and large white fish on nymphs. Another local fly fisher caught "a ton" (you would not believe the number if I told you) of trout in a 300 yd stretch using a stimulator. He said the fish wanted to see some movement on the fly as opposed to a dead -drifted fly. Wallowa and Kinney Lakes continue to fish well as do isolated sections of the Lostine. The upper Imnaha is slow, but the lower river is fair for trout. Also see steelhead numbers in prior report.
8-3-2010 SPECIAL STEELHEAD UPDATE!! With last years phenomenal steelhead run still settling into legend, this years big boys are already on their way! The ytd count over Ice Harbor (the first dam on the snake river system) begining May 1st, is at 35,382 which is well over double the ten year average! With a full third of those fish being wild.
To compare that data with last years fabled run, the number of fish over Ice Harbor last year (again begining on May 1st) at this date was 15,886. So we have almost 20,000 more fish already this year! Now we don't know what the future will hold or where all these fish are headed, but I would start cleaning your sink tips and tying flies if I were you.
For more fish data check out the link on our home page.
Note: in hot weather being extremely careful when releasing fish is important. Handing of the fish should be as minimal as possible and they should not be removed from the water. After a good fight you might need to hold them in the water for as long as 2-3 minutes before they are strong enough to swim away. As always we recommend using barb-less hooks and a net to aid in the healthy release of fish.
