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Scott Sadil

Scott Sadil writes about fly fishing for the sport’s best magazines. His collection of fiction, "Lost in Wyoming," was a finalist for the 2011 Ken Kesey Oregon Book Award in fiction. He lives in Hood River with the new love of his life, Tia, a wooden Swampscott dory.

Chasing Winter Steelhead

November 28, 2012
What I love about the Hood River is the opportunity to catch a chrome-bright steelhead from its swift and turbid waters nearly any month of the year. But fresh steelhead prove especially appealing in winter. The true winter-run steelhead arrive with Oregon’s autumn rains and climb the swollen waters, ready to spawn. Fresh fish, in the vernacular, are both bright and hot. Hence my love of winter on the Hood — a river that spills into the Columbia not five minutes from home and carries... More
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