No matter what happens in the world, you can always find peace on the water with the sun shining on your shoulder. And you can always find a welcome smile among friends in our little fly shop. We hope to see you here soon! Welcome home.



Featured Articles

Curtain Call

By Josh Linn

While the Deschutes Summer Steelhead Season may be winding down, there's still time for one last performance... 

Tales of Freshwater Fishes

Occasionally, an interesting piece of fly fishing history walks into the shop. Whether it's an old dusty book, vintage reel, or well-used bamboo rod, each has a story, and we love to hear them. This rod has a very special story...

Special Volunteer Event

This Saturday, November 9th

Clackamas Trout Unlimited

Cub Creek Tree Planting

A volunteer team from Clackamas River Trout Unlimited will plant 300 conifers on the access road and cut a portion of the Cub Creek Stage 0 restoration project this Saturday. Fall is the best time to plant so roots have a chance to get established before the dry summer months. Bring your best dirt-digging skills to get these trees in the ground!

Bring a shovel

Bring Gloves

Drinks and snacks will be provided.

Dress for the weather!

USFS will provide hard hats. (we are working in the fire zone)

Meet at the Ripplebrook Store at 9:00 am. We will gather and caravan to the site.

9:30-10:00, Safety meeting and planting instructions

10:00-1:00, Plant some trees!

1:00-end, BBQ and debrief.

Please go to this link to register so we know how many are coming. 

This Saturday!

Tyer's Table with Alex Willson

Join us this Saturday, November 9th, at 10:30 AM as newcomer Alex Willson shares a few of his favorite winter Steelhead patterns. Please make plans to join us!



Add this to your Christmas list!

New in the Shop!

Oregon has no river more steeped in Steelheading history than the North Umpqua. Famous authors, politicians, artists, and pioneering anglers have haunted its banks and waded her icy waters to cast a fly in legendary pools and riffles.

Among the anglers who called this river home water, Joe Howell is a living legend and still makes his home within earshot of her tumbling rapids. His knowledge of the river, the fish, and the fishing is second to none. His original fly patterns are found in the boxes of many who follow in the footsteps of the ghosts that still haunt these hallowed waters. Now, he's put his passion and knowledge into a new Fly Fishing Guide to the North Umpqua.

Cookie Lady Coat Drive

We're over 200 coats on our way to 400! The Cookie Lady Coat Drive is in full swing, but we need your donations! We have some incredible prizes to be raffled off with your donation, leading off with an RS rain jacket from Skwala, a pair of River Ops Boa boots from Korkers, and fly lines from Scientific Anglers and Rio. We'll round it out with plenty of consolation prizes, so clean out the closet and bring your coat donations in to exchange for a raffle ticket. The coat drive runs through Black Friday, November 29th.

Once again, the American Military Encouragement Network (AMEN) will be our chosen organization for your efforts. AMEN is a non-profit organization that offers assistance and encouragement to homeless veterans, active and reserve military personnel, servicemen, women, and military families in Oregon and SW Washington.

Thank you all for your support of this effort! 

Win a net like this beauty!

#KeepFishWet

Join the movement and #KeepFishWet in your photos and social media feeds.

Royal Treatment Fly Fishing will be commissioning a custom Trout landing net ($300+ value) for one lucky "Instagram influencer" from our friend Ethan @ev_woodworks for the best social media feed showing the wonders of fly angling without fish out of water. Ethan's nets are the pinnacle of the woodworker's art, with many using unique live edge burl that make each creation a one-of-a-kind treasure. And...

Thanks to an anonymous donor, we have a $200 gift card to award to one of the participating accounts, with more prizes on the way! Join the movement and #KeepFishWet!

Share your "wet fish" photos with me; you may find them here in the newsletter. Be an influencer!  

Christmas Island 2025

With Josh Linn

Josh has a few spots available on his Christmas Island trip this spring. Stop in the shop to discuss the details.

Christmas Island is situated in the Pacific Ocean, south of Hawaii. You are probably thinking of a tropical island paradise in the Pacific Ocean, and you are partially right. If stranded on Christmas Island before it had become inhabited, you would probably die within a week. There is no fresh water and very little naturally growing food. This is a very inhospitable place. But if your idea of a tropical paradise is an unlimited amount of endless flats, lots of bonefish, trevally, and many other species, and a room with air conditioning and a bed, then this is the place for you...