The fair was great! Lots bamboo to see and cast. A large assortment of antique fly fishing equipment and collectibles were available for sale as well as a good assortment of fish art. The weather was very pleasant, clear skies and not too hot. Here are a few pictures I took during the weekend.

Wizard Falls on the Metolius River

Jim and Ron from Roseburg selling some of their collection.

The usual cast of tiers including Dave Roberts…

Bob Larsell with Laura…..

Morris….

and Mrs. Moon (Monica).

Ms. Kate enjoyed the show mostly from this position when she could avoid all the attention she received from her admirers.

Jason Borger gave a few well received clinics.

A couple of Metolius Golden Stones preparing to repopulate the river.

Got up to Diamond Lake last week for three days with my folks.  The fishing wasn’t quite as fast and furious as it was the last couple of weeks.  Full moon?  Maybe.  Wednesday afternoon I trolled a wooly bugger, prospecting to locate fish, for a while with no action, not even a strike.  Then I noticed lots of chironomid pupa shucks in the water and set up in ten feet of water with a zebra midge and and a flashback bead head pheasant tail for weight instead of a splitshot.  It didn’t take long for the fish to find them.  Landed 8 in a couple of hours with at least that many more hooked and lost.  Most of the trout were about 12 to 14 inches, none of the monsters cooperated.  Thursday and Friday were about carbon copies of Wednesday with 5 and 11 respectfully (less fishing time however).

We had a good time.  The weather was very nice, even the wind was reasonable all three days.  Can’t wait to go back.