Field & Stream

Roar of the Freight Train

IF YOU BELIEVE the legend, noted fly-tier Randall Kauffman was fishing the Deschutes River when he hooked a steelhead just as a freight train was thundering up the canyon. The unnamed fly he removed from the maw of the great trout was christened on the spot.

The Freight Train is one of several traditional steelhead

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