I roll pretty light with the exception of my Nikon and a bottle of water. I pack every thing into a backpack or chest pack. I have 2 packs for the different ways I fish from small streams to large rivers. I always have my yellow lens solar bat glasses and a license to fish in Oregon and Washington.



In the Winter I fish 2 different ways related mostly to the size of the stream or river I will be on. I often carry 2 rods when I fish medium to large size rivers such as the Sandy or Clackamas rivers. The first rod will be a jig and bobber rod of 10 feet in length or more with a 1 oz inline float system strung on 15 or 20 lb fluorocarbon or 30 lb Power Pro. I use this rod to cover steelhead jigs, pink worms and bait under a float. This rod has a good solid backdone with a fast taper for line control and hooksets from across a larger river. The second rod will be an 8'6" to 9'6" spinning rod with 12 lb that I will use to roll brass steelhead spinners through every piece of faster water I see.





On small streams such as Eagle creek or the North Fork of anywhere I will fish a 7 or 8 weight fly rod with a custom trout bead, a tag of yarn and possibly a strike indicator. A floating line is always fished on this rod. In this type of small water fishing the bead replaces the corkie. This same fly rod can also serve up flys, yarnys and micro jigs. During periods of high water, on certain streams I may also carry one of the other 2 rods to cover the tougher conditions. For small stream fishing with this fly rod I load a chest pack with universal tackle to fly fish or drift fish. The large corkies shown are used only as a strike indicator when beading during periods of low water.





The second larger river pack is outfitted with spinners, spoons, and enough 1 oz float gear to cover several different methods of float fishing.

You might be wondering why there is no drift rod or corkies shown here.....I do drift fish in a few places but for all of my small to medium river applications I use the fly rod shown above to 'drift fish' lightly with yarn and beads. In large rivers I feel I can really cover alot more water with the hardware and float rod without loosing much gear for day of fishing.