8-5 SS Red's Horseback

 Remote Creek Fishing on Horseback, Hot Dry Flies, and Used Drift Boats...

Starting about 4 years ago, Red’s Fly Shop began personally taking one day trail rides into the William O' Douglas Wilderness to fly fish remote streams and lakes.  Here’s Craig Hettinginger: “William O' Douglas Wilderness is the stretch from halfway between Chinook and White Pass all the way into

Gull rocks and part of Mount Adams right on the Cascade Crest Trail. They can expect to meet up with a wrangler who will supply broke horses for everybody and ride up the trail crossing the river probably more than once and having lunch and then riding back out the same day. In the middle of all of this they are going to be going to fishing spots and fishing. It is going to be Rattlesnake Creek which is a tributary of the Nachees and the Nachees is where the majority of the steelhead and salmon go up that are not coming up to the Yakima, it is all native steelhead up on that end. You don’t usually have to use too many nymphs,  you can use streamers if you want, mostly dry fly fishing, they like ants a lot, and your standard drive flies. Light weight rods, little two weights and three weights work perfectly.”

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