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Topic: Inside-the-bay flies?  (Read 4714 times)

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Fishboy

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Looking for advice on fly patterns for use inside bays and estuaries for perch, flounder and greenling. I'm thinking both open water and around rocks, jetties, groins, etc.


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Most of the forage inside the bays are baitfish and shrimp so any large weighted streamer will probably work. For rockfish or lingcod I'd go with large clousers, and for the smaller bay fish you mention, I'd simply offer smaller versions.
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Bsteves: Have any favorite colors for Oregon waters?


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I haven't done much ocean flyfishing in Oregon so I don't have any particular color recommendations.  I used to do a bit for striped bass and bluefish in bays on the East Coast and they seemed to really like chartreuse and white.   By the way, if you do a Google search for "rockfish fly fishing" a lot of those results will be for striped bass fly fishing in Maryland and Virginia.

Anyway, here are a few online articles about fly fishing for surfperch and rockfish.

http://www.flyfisherman.com/northwest/khsandybeach/index.html

http://oregonflyfishingblog.com/2009/01/20/rockfish-on-the-fly-oregon-coast-is-fishing-great/

http://oregonflyfishingblog.com/2008/09/28/salt-water-fly-fishing-for-oregon-rockfish-and-greenling/

http://flyfishing.about.com/od/saltwaterflyfishing/a/surfperch.htm




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Bsteves: Thanks for the URLs!


 

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