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Welcome to the Patient Angler Fly Shop. The locals favorite for fly fishing Information, Instruction, Flies & Gear, Fly Tying Materials & Tools, Guided Trips and Adventure Travel. The Patient Angler has provided quality products and services in Bend, Oregon since 1984, with a professional full time staff that is well versed in all aspects of fresh and saltwater fly fishing. We are blessed to live in central Oregon surrounded by some of the best fishing in the country. Great rivers like the Deschutes River, John Day River, North Umpqua River and the McKenzie River producing Bass, Trout, Steelhead and Salmon for fly anglers. Then we have the beautiful High Cascade Lakes available just minutes from town. The Cascade Lakes include Crane Prairie Reservoir, Wickiup Reservoir, East Lake, Hosmer Lake, Davis Lake and the Lava Lakes. All provide opportunities to catch Rainbows, Browns, Brookies, Atlantic Salmon, kokanee and Bass.
The Patient Angler has a passion for this way of life we call fly-fishing. Our goal is to provide the best customer service and reliable product lines available in the industry today. I encourage you to stop by and visit our well-stocked shop or give us a call and let us redefine customer service for you.
Check out our new Patient Angler Blog page. Our first blog post is a review of the new Patagonia wading boot that will be available for the 2012 season. We will be updating our blog regularly with fishing reports, videos, product reviews and comments on fly fishing current events.
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What's Happenin'
We started a new Blog page. We will be updating our blog regularly. Take a look.
Check out our new video of The Patient Angler catching a wild Grande Ronde steelhead, TWICE!
The fishing has been pretty good on the Lowers Deschutes. The water jumped up for a few days, but is back close to normal now. Swinging flies with sink-tips or nymphing have been the most productive methods used. Remember, the upper part of the Lower Deschutes River (Warm Springs to Locked Gate) closed the first of the year.
The John Day River has been frozen for the past couple of weeks and needed some water & warmer weather to get it going again. Well we got the water last week and the bump in river level we needed. The John Day has since dropped and is still cold, but flowing and fishable.
Crooked River has been fishing very well with egg patterns and small Beatis nymphs.
Read our current fishing reports
We started a new Blog page. We will be updating our blog regularly. Take a look.
Check out our new video of The Patient Angler catching a wild Grande Ronde steelhead, TWICE!
The fishing has been pretty good on the Lowers Deschutes. The water jumped up for a few days, but is back close to normal now. Swinging flies with sink-tips or nymphing have been the most productive methods used. Remember, the upper part of the Lower Deschutes River (Warm Springs to Locked Gate) closed the first of the year.
The John Day River has been frozen for the past couple of weeks and needed some water & warmer weather to get it going again. Well we got the water last week and the bump in river level we needed. The John Day has since dropped and is still cold, but flowing and fishable.
Crooked River has been fishing very well with egg patterns and small Beatis nymphs.
Read our current fishing reports
