Wild Calling

      HANDMADE     GAME CALLS

That's the Bridge Hole at Troy, Oregon in the lower left.  The mouth of the roadless Wenaha River is just out of sight.  This hole produces a  number of the steelhead taken from the Grande Ronde River every year.

This is my favorite run on the Perfect River, somewhere along its northeast journey from well into NE Oregon, across the state line to empty into the mighty Snake River in Southeastern Washington.

A view of the lower river, from Redmond Grade between the tiny towns of Flora and Troy.  Fewer than 100 people call Troy home, but they claim all roads lead to Troy.

Merle, my long time fishing partner shows off a nice summer steelhead taken at the "Pine Tree" hole.  An isolated section - 18 miles - of the Perfect River is accessible by road. 

The Wallowa River is a tributary of the Perfect River and I took this steelhead from a section of the Wallowa that is accessable only by railroad.

Looking upstream at the long drift where I caught the steelhead at left in March, 2006.  It was cold until the sun worked around to our side of the river.

I slipped and fell and broke my tail bone on the trip at left.  It still hurts in June.