Metolius River Fish Report for 7-19-2025
Great time of year on the Metolius!
Metolius River - Metolius Springs, OR (Jefferson County)

by The Fly Fishers Place
7-19-2025
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This time of year on the Metolius River it is a great time of the season to fish from the Headwaters to Gorge Campground throughout the morning, afternoon and evening. You will run into hatches of Golden Stones, Yellow Sally’s, PMD’s (who took my advice from last week and got some Yellow Missing Link’s) Beetles, Ants and even a few Grasshoppers up here (more to come in August and September). In the evening add Tan Caddis and Rusty Spinners. Also, use your new Micro Thin Euro Leaders you learned about from the report a few weeks back, and fish Perdigons and Jigs with that set up, and bump up the butt section for the Euro Streamers to an 8# to 12# butt section with 4x or 4.5x for the streamers.
The Middle River is still a little off on the evening hatch, but this seems to be a normal trend in July. Not every evening is the same, and you might find a glorious BWO hatch at 5 PM followed by Caddis or Yellow Sally’s after dinner, and a dusk Rusty Spinner Fall. Afternoons are seeing some good PMD hatches through the middle river too, and they extend below Bridge 99 and to Candle Creek. Caddis Pupa along with Mayfly Nymphs (try the new Split Case PMD Perdigon and a Yellow Jig Napolean), Jigged 20”, Olive Perdigon with an Orange Hot Spot, Red or Brown 2 Bit Hooker and Micro Mayfly for both PMD’s and BWO’s.
Bull Trout fishing is improving and it’s good, with more lake run fish in the system than last week.
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