Central Oregon's John Day River

November 16, 2009 By: Marshall Cutchin

“Each time one violently struck at our flies, you could almost see the cartoon ‘bubbles’ above the froth. It was like fishing in an arcade game, where the bass were abundant and programmed to strike anything that entered their watery domain.” Sam Fried writes about a recent trip to central Oregon to fly fish for smallmouth bass on the John Day River. In the New Haven Register.