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Deschutes River - Lower - June 2nd, 2011
supplied by: The Patient Angler
RECORDED: 
66 °
FISHING: Great
We closed the shop on Memorial Day, so Thu & I headed to the Lower Deschutes to fish the Salmon fly hatch. We arrived around 11:00 am and found some of the expected crowd already packing up from the weekend and heading home. The weather was good with mostly sunny skies and warm, which was refreshing and much needed due the run of bad weather we have had to deal with this spring.
We geared up, tied on our dry Salmon fly imitations and headed down river to look for a few willing fish. It didn’t take long to get my first take as the big bugs have been out in this area for over a week and the fish are looking up for them. I tried six different Salmon fly patterns throughout the day, just to see which ones would get the most action. The Chubby Chernobyl, Rogue Foam Stone and the good old Stimulator seemed to work the best or at least get the most hits. I would have to say that the Chubby Chernobyl got the most hits, but it also had the fewest hookups. I think the small fish have a hard time getting that big foam body into their mouth. We only fished the first mile of river and most of the action we had was from small fish. I did get a few shots at bigger fish, but the biggest one I hooked was about 16 inches. It was a fat 16 inches, but not the 20+ fatty that you dream about. Anyway, we had a great time testing our skills to see how many casts you could attempt up under an overhanging tree before you lost your fly. Being out on such a nice day didn’t hurt either.
The Salmon fly hatch won’t last much longer, so get out and fish them while you can.
The Patient Angler patientangler.com
Peter Bowers
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Deschutes River - Lower - June 1st, 2011
supplied by: Deschutes Canyon Fly Shop, Inc.
RECORDED: 
66 °
FISHING: Good
Check out a great article about being guided by Nate on the Deschutes written by a past and future client Steve Goodwin: http://stephenhardygoodwin.com/golf/travel/524/an-easterner-fishes-the-deschutes
Check out a great video of Nate landing a big rainbow at Rocky Ridge Ranch, one of the private lakes that we book.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT9eW792RSc
Trout fishing on the Deschutes has improved, but posed challenges for some over the Memorial Day Weekend. We had a wide variety of reports from fly fishers stopping by to restock and fill us in on they’re latest experience. Some did poorly, some did well. Water levels have been on the decline for a few days for a change. Its dropped from 6,700 to 5,860 since last Thursday. This is making it easier to find fish, but you should still concentrate your efforts right along the bank. There are a few exceptions on some of those “outside back-eddie seams”, where you see a foam line or a slow hydraulic where trout like to line up for chow.
Its peak time for the Salmon Fly, Golden Stone hatch, and the trout are really keyed into them right now. Lots of bugs from Maupin up to the Trout Creek area. Both the nymphs and adults are active and you should be prepared to fish with either. At this time, use the nymphs in the AM, Dries from midday to PM. This hatch will last until the middle of June. Also seeing the first of the Green Drake’s and they took those bugs too!!
Clarity has improved, green color,15 feet visibility and fishes good all day long. You will find trout feeding on dries, wets, and nymphs in back eddies, inside current seams, fast water pockets and steep bank runs. Be mindful, that with these high water levels, the grass hummocks along the bank will be under water in most areas. Make your cast just to the outside of them, and find trout laying there in anticipation of food.
Igloo Case Building Caddis, (20’s) Free Living caddis,(14’s) Mahogany duns,(16’s) PMD’s,(16’s) and PED’s (12)’s are hatches that are in good numbers and should be fished if the big bugs aren’t working. Don’t forget about midge, they hatch all year long, and if you don’t mind fishing these (18’s) (20’s) (22’s) in the slow water, you can sometimes save the day.
A good plan is to take a few moments to study and look for rising or sipping trout in back eddies, and slack water, just inside a current edge that forms a food gathering seam. Nothing there? No sweat, head for the tree lines and work your way up stream at a good pace. Have fun !!!
If you have Q’s, Please don’t hesitate to call, John Smeraglio, Nate Morris, or Joe Ringo, ... We’d be glad to help!
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Deschutes River - Lower - May 30th, 2011
supplied by: Deschutes River Outfitters
FISHING: Good
Salmon flies and golden stones from Warm Springs down. Getting thick up that way and has been fishing pretty well. Staring to thin out around Maupin, but still got fish to look up on the big dries. Scatterd PMDs, caddis, and saw a few green drakes pop yesterday. Fishing has been consistenly decent, not ripping, but cover the banks, and trees keep plugging and there has been some real good days despite the weather that can't make up its mind. As river drops and weather stabilize look for more fish to lock on and the fishing to maintain or even get better. Get out there the big bugs are popping and before you know it gone.
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Deschutes River - Lower - May 26th, 2011
supplied by: John Judy Flyfishing
RECORDED: 
70 °
FISHING: Great
Salmonflies are fully hatched out now and the fishing is good. With all the snow melt in the mountains the river is pretty big so your access to some places may be limited. Don’t for a minute think that the higher water slows the fish down from feeding. They’re out there and they won’t pass up a good meal even if the water is a little high and off color. Flows should start dropping slowly through the rest of the hatch.
Some tricks to fishing the Salmonfly hatch: be persistent. For a variety of reasons this hatch has a tendency to turn off and then turn on in very mysterious ways. Have faith. If you try your dry fly for a while and it just doesn’t seem to be working don’t be too quick to switch to nymphing. Sooner or later those dry flies are going to kick in and that’s what you came for isn't it?
Also; concentrate your fishing effort along the banks and edges of the river. Salmonflies aren’t really hatching mid river like a mayfly. They crawl out and emerge on the bank. They become available to fish when they fall back into the water or return for egg laying. This activity is close to shore. That’s where you are going to find the fish.
For a perdiction how long the hatch will last: Salmonflies came a little late this year so I am expecting it to last a little longer on the other end. I think you will have good fishing in the Maupin area (above town) through about the 15th of June. In the Warm Springs area it will probably go until about the 20th of June.
One last thought; In the midst of the Salmonfly hatch you should also be looking for Green Drakes in the early afternoon. This can be red hot. When they appear Drakes often trump Salmonflies; fish will change their feeding preference. Look for this hatch to bring some bonus fun.
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Deschutes River - Lower - May 24th, 2011
supplied by: Radditz Sipler Outfitters (RSO)
RECORDED: 
64 °
FISHING: Excellent
Three slow days followed by three red-hot days this week! The bugs are thick now and the fish are looking for them in a big way. No need to fish sub-surface at the moment, just put on a big bushy dry and head into the deepest, nastiest overhanging banks. Though not a "numbers" guy, I have to say that a few 20 fish stops puts things in perspective. Despite higher than normal river levels, there are plenty of A+ spots to fish at this level. Anywhere from Mack's Canyon to Warm Springs will be prime for the next few days, but expect things to start winding down below Maupin in the next week or so.
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Deschutes River - Lower - May 23rd, 2011
supplied by: The Flyfishers Place
RECORDED:
59 °
FISHING: Good
Salmonflies are out from Below Maupin to Mecca. The fish are on them best down in the Maupin area but starting to look up at Trout Creek for sure.
Water is high but clear and fishable.
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Deschutes River - Lower - May 21st, 2011
supplied by: Deschutes Canyon Fly Shop, Inc.
RECORDED:
62 °
FISHING: Good
Check out a great article about being guided by Nate on the Deschutes written by a past and future client Steve Goodwin: http://stephenhardygoodwin.com/golf/travel/524/an-easterner-fishes-the-deschutes
Check out a great video of Nate landing a big rainbow at Rocky Ridge Ranch, one of the private lakes that we book.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT9eW792RSc
Okay, here’s the deal, the Deschutes river level is high, just like the rest of the west. The discharge from the Pelton reregulating dam today is 6,850 CFS, That's about 2,500 CFS above average. It is going to be a high water year. Just relax and settle into that thought and remember that it doesn’t effect the hatches or trout feeding behavior as much as you would think. There are a few more folks coming over to fish, but the fishing pressure is still fairly light. The people that are finding their way to the banks of the Deschutes are catching trout.
Clarity of the river is alright, light green color, 10 feet visibility and very fishable. You will find trout feeding on dries, wets, and nymphs in back eddies, inside current seams, fast water pockets and steep bank runs. Be mindful, that with these high water levels, the grass hummocks along the bank will be under water in most areas. Make your cast just to the outside of them, and find trout laying there in anticipation of food.
The Salmon Flies and Golden Stones are hatching. Both the nymphs and adults are active and you should be prepared to fish with either. At this time, use the nymphs in the AM, Dries in the afternoon to PM. This hatch will last until the middle of June.
Blue Wing Olives have faded, but, Igloo Case Building Caddis, (20’s) Free Living caddis,(14’s) Mahogany duns,(16’s) PMD’s,(16’s) and PED’s (12)’s are hatches that are in good numbers and should be fished if the big bugs aren’t working. Don’t forget about midge, they hatch all year long, and if you don’t mind fishing these (18’s) (20’s) (22’s) in the slow water, you can sometimes save the day.
A good plan is to take a few moments to study and look for rising or sipping trout in back eddies, and slack water, just inside a current edge that forms a food gathering seam. Nothing there? No sweat, head for the tree lines and work your way up stream at a good pace. Have fun !!!
If you have Q’s, Please don’t hesitate to call, John Smeraglio, Nate Morris,
or Joe Ringo, ... We’d be glad to help! Also, we have some availability for Guided Trips in June; if you are interested give us a call.
(541) 395-2565,
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Deschutes River - Lower - May 16th, 2011
supplied by: Radditz Sipler Outfitters (RSO)
RECORDED: 
60 °
FISHING: Good
With all the hype about the Salmonflies starting to hatch we headed out on our last trip not to the upper river, but down low where the bugs start to hatch first. From Beavertail to Mack's Canyon we did see some adults out, but the real concentrations were below Mack's. Plenty of both salmonflies and golden stones have hatched already, are flying, and getting eaten down low. This hatch progresses upriver so we should see the bugs out and the fishing keyed into them in the entire river really soon. We caught fish all the way up to Whitehorse early last week on the big dries, but I would say that the majority of the fish are not looking for them yet. Another week of warmer weather and a falling river is what we need right now. The river bumped up again this week and is currently at 64800 cfs. That's quite a bit of water, but by no means is it un-fishable. Your options just become somewhat limited. Find the soft edges, find the fish. The other thing we have seen again this year is a reduction in water clarity. This is due to the fact that the new fish passage off-take structure in Lake Billy Chinook is taking a portion of the outflows from the surface of the lake where the flows of the Crooked river tend to stratify. As anyone that has fished the Crooked well knows, the Crooked carries a fair load of sediment and now, instead of settling in the lake, some of it is being passed over the dam complex. It has not seemed to affect fishing but it is worthy to note nonetheless. Trout Creek had created additional clarity issues this past week after a series of rainstorms but had dropped and cleared again. Keep an eye on the weather for us. We are back out on Wednesday.
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Deschutes River - Lower - May 15th, 2011
supplied by: Deschutes River Outfitters
FISHING: Good
Just got back from a trip Trout Creek to Harpham. Nymphing big bugs the first two days was the way to go. River still a little big and dirtier than normal Deschutes color. Riffles and little calm pockets worked. Didn't see a much for mayfly action, pretty scattered and not much looking. But we started to see the random adult salmon fly and some fresh nymph shucks on the grass. By the time we got closer to Maupin there where a fair to decent number of salmon flies and goldens. It took covering a lot of water, but we did find scattered pockets of fish up and willing to take a big dry. Perfect, sure missed seeing those big dry fly snarfs, super fun. Looks like the fun is just starting for the Salmon fly hatch. We where down just a couple days before that (see last report), and we saw hardly an adult one and few nymph shucks, just started. Time to get serious. We have very limited dates like 8, between now and late June. If you want a salmon fly trip, book now. Starting to plan summertime fun, July is amazing on the Deschutes.
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Deschutes River - Lower - May 14th, 2011
supplied by: Deschutes Canyon Fly Shop, Inc.
RECORDED:
60 °
FISHING: Good
Check out a great article about being guided by Nate on the Deschutes written by a past and future client Steve Goodwin: http://stephenhardygoodwin.com/golf/travel/524/an-easterner-fishes-the-deschutes
Deschutes River Redside Trout Report:
The water level is down around 5200cfs and for now it seems to be fairly stable.
Stoneflys and Salmonflys are starting to show in decent numbers...nothing crazy yet, but you are seeing them in the normal places. We have had sporadic success on top, but nymphing has been more productive. Best guess is that things will really start to get going in 5-10 days.
Look for Mahogany duns to be the more dominant Mayfly hatch. Igloo-cased caddis, Net spinning caddis, and Green rockworms will all become more prevalent as we head into the middle part of May.
Right now the most consistent fishing has been nymphing, keep your presentations in tight to shore, a lot of the time those submerged grass hummocks that are normally dry are holding fish.
If you have any questions give John, myself (Nate), or Joe a call at 541-395-2565 and we will be happy to help.
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