Well, Fall is upon us and this amazing season brings along a multitude of fishing options. Where to go and what to do? Here locally on the McKenzie River, recent rains have put the steelhead in a more aggressive mode. Last Friday, we had an upper-river fly trip for trout planned. Due to heavy rains however, we made a last minute change and ran the lower river for steelhead. We hit two steelhead on plugs and even had an old Springer grab a spinner. Soon, the big orange "October Caddis" should liven things up for folks chasing our native Redside trout on dries. Over on the Siuslaw and Lake Creek, chrome-bright chinook have forged their way well-upriver into the free-flowing stretches, miles above tidewater, and are available especially to bank fishermen as river levels are a tad less than optimal for driftboaters.