Stick with a variety of caddis-imitating soft hackles such as the Caddis Pupa, Soft Hackle Hare’s Ear, Gold Invicta Caddis Sedge and Carey Special. Tie a blood-knotted, two-section leader with Maxima Chameleon, leaving long tags to tie on three wet flies. If no hatch is in progress, soft-hackle flies produce, especially when two or three are fished at once in the preferred McKenzie River style. Bring a selection of caddis flies in various colors and sizes from No. Expect to see spotted, saddle-case, green and McKenzie caddis in June, July and August. In the summer months, the McKenzie has reliable hatches of stoneflies, caddis, mayflies and midges. Ninety minutes after that we slid our boats into the McKenzie. We had convened at The Fly Fisher’s Place on Main Street in Sisters. In the other boat, with guide Mel Crabb, were our friends Mike and Dianne Green. Before we were finished that evening, the trout were leaping from the riffles to grab our flies above the water. On our trip during the second week of June, with my dad in the boat and guide Steve Erickson on the sticks, the river fished like mid-July. It can run high with runoff or it can fish at summertime levels, depending on snowpack in the Cascades. From one year to the next, Oregon’s McKenzie River is a river of multiple personalities early in the summer.
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