Hey Pred.1, I don't recognize that fish in your post as being like any from Oregon. I have caught a few radical looking creatures off the bottom of Haro Straight (out of Snug Harbor in the San Juans) that looked a little like your fish there though. I haven't fished the N. Ump. above Steamboat for a few years. There are so many exotic fly patterns now, but I bet the old rule we used to go by for the upper Ump to the Deschutes to the Kalama, and lots of rivers in between, would still apply today. We figured that if you couldn't catch a summer steelhead using well tied and presented Golden Deamons, Green Butt Skunks, and Muddler Minnows (steelhead version) that you probably wouldn't catch them on any fly. Could be wrong of course. The two patterns I liked for sink-tip chinook flyfishing were a large Royal Coachman tied on a heavywire size 2 hook (drift & swing) and a weighted Double Flame Egg (usually dead-drifted; sometimes with a strike indicator).- Steve

[This message has been edited by Reel Truth (edited 05-16-2000).]