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Deschutes River - Lower - February 27th, 2011
supplied by: Deschutes Canyon Fly Shop, Inc.
RECORDED: 
35 °
FISHING: Fair
The harsh conditions have lightened up. We have 1" of snow in spots, and the temp. is up to 35 degrees now. This makes things much easier to deal with, you won't have to worry about your line freezing to rod today.
River clarity is good, nice green color, and about 15 feet visibility. You will find trout feeding on dries in back eddies and slack water areas. More of these water types are created due to the high water flows, so don’t be fooled, trout move where water conditions take them, and high water brings them in really close. Blue Wing Olives and Igloo Case Building Caddis, is still the main hatch.
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. The winter cycle of the BWO’s on the Deschutes produce a nice size 16, but make sure you have some 18s just in case they get picky. Also, BWO’s always a must have in your fly box. The caddis is a size 18 ~ 20 and a very dark gray in color. Expect this activity to take place between noon and 3 PM.
Not looking up, them get down to em with some attractor patterns followed by a small natural looker. Yes, a two fly rig can help the end result of the day.
If you have Q’s, please give me, John, a call. Id be glad to help!
(541) 395-2565, Anytime day or night!
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Deschutes River - Lower - February 26th, 2011
supplied by: Deschutes Canyon Fly Shop, Inc.
RECORDED: 
3 °
FISHING: Poor
Very cold and harsh conditions. 3" of snow, but the killer is the temp. 3 degrees. Makes it difficult to fish when your line freezes to your rod. Not much else has changed, I'd give it about 3 to 4 days to allow this cold air to leave.
Clarity is good, nice green color, and about 15 feet visibility. You will find trout feeding on dries in back eddies and slack water areas. More of these water types are created due to the high water flows, so don’t be fooled, trout move where water conditions take them, and high water brings them in really close.
Blue Wing Olives and Igloo Case Building Caddis, are the two most dominate hatches now, and will increase in numbers as we move into February. 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.
The winter cycle of the BWO’s on the Deschutes produce a nice size 16, but make sure you have some 18s just in case they get picky. Also, BWO’s always a must have in your fly box. The caddis is a size 18 ~ 20 and a very dark gray in color. Expect this activity to take place between noon and 3 PM.
Not looking up, them get down to em with some attractor patterns followed by a small natural looker. Yes, a two fly rig can help the end result of the day.
If you have Q’s, please give me, John, a call. Id be glad to help!
(541) 395-2565, Anytime day or night!
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Deschutes River - Lower - February 25th, 2011
supplied by: Deschutes Canyon Fly Shop, Inc.
RECORDED: 
12 °
FISHING: Fair
Very cold and harsh conditions. 3" of snow, but the killer is the temp. 12 degrees. Makes it difficult to fish when your line freezes to your rod. Not much else has changed, I'd give it about 3 to 4 days to allow this cold air to leave.
Clarity is good, nice green color, and about 15 feet visibility. You will find trout feeding on dries in back eddies and slack water areas. More of these water types are created due to the high water flows, so don’t be fooled, trout move where water conditions take them, and high water brings them in really close.
Blue Wing Olives and Igloo Case Building Caddis, are the two most dominate hatches now, and will increase in numbers as we move into February. 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.
The winter cycle of the BWO’s on the Deschutes produce a nice size 16, but make sure you have some 18s just in case they get picky. Also, BWO’s always a must have in your fly box. The caddis is a size 18 ~ 20 and a very dark gray in color. Expect this activity to take place between noon and 3 PM.
Not looking up, them get down to em with some attractor patterns followed by a small natural looker. Yes, a two fly rig can help the end result of the day.
If you have Q’s, please give me, John, a call. Id be glad to help!
(541) 395-2565, Anytime day or night!
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Deschutes River - Lower - February 17th, 2011
supplied by: Deschutes Canyon Fly Shop, Inc.
RECORDED:
43 °
FISHING: Fair
Now the river level is back down to a normal winter flow of 5,200 CFS (cubic feet per second), being discharged from the Pelton Reregulating Dam near Madras. This is down from what it was a 10 days ago, when the level was around 5,850, now you can get around the rivers edge much easier to chase trout.
Clarity is good, nice green color, and about 15 feet visibility. You will find trout feeding on dries in back eddies and slack water areas. More of these water types are created due to the high water flows, so don’t be fooled, trout move where water conditions take them, and high water brings them in really close.
Blue Wing Olives and Igloo Case Building Caddis, are the two most dominate hatches now, and will increase in numbers as we move into February. 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.
The winter cycle of the BWO’s on the Deschutes produce a nice size 16, but make sure you have some 18s just in case they get picky. Also, BWO’s always a must have in your fly box. The caddis is a size 18 ~ 20 and a very dark gray in color. Expect this activity to take place between noon and 3 PM.
Not looking up, them get down to em with some attractor patterns followed by a small natural looker. Yes, a two fly rig can help the end result of the day.
If you have Q’s, please give me, John, a call. Id be glad to help!
(541) 395-2565, Anytime day or night!
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Deschutes River - Lower - February 4th, 2011
supplied by: Deschutes Canyon Fly Shop, Inc.
RECORDED:
41 °
FISHING: Fair
Water conditions have become better, 5,900 CFS (cubic feet per second), is now the discharged from the Pelton Reregulating Dam Just below Madras. This is down from what it was a 10 days ago, when the level was at 8,600, big difference, making it much easier to fish!
Clarity is good, nice green color, and about 15 feet visibility. You will find trout feeding on dries in back eddies and slack water areas. More of these water types are created due to the high water flows, so don’t be fooled, trout move where water conditions take them, and high water brings them in really close.
Blue Wing Olives and Igloo Case Building Caddis, are the two most dominate hatches now, and will increase in numbers as we move into February. 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.
The winter cycle of the BWO’s on the Deschutes produce a nice size 16, but make sure you have some 18s just in case they get picky. Also, BWO’s always a must have in your fly box. The caddis is a size 18 ~ 20 and a very dark gray in color. Expect this activity to take place between noon and 3 PM.
Not looking up, them get down to em with some attractor patterns followed by a small natural looker. Yes, a two fly rig can help the end result of the day.
If you have Q’s, please give me, John, a call. Id be glad to help!
(541) 395-2565, Anytime day or night!
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Deschutes River - Lower - February 1st, 2011
supplied by: Deschutes Canyon Fly Shop, Inc.
RECORDED: 
36 °
FISHING: Fair
Water conditions have become better, 6,200 CFS (cubic feet per second), is now the discharged from the Pelton Reregulating Dam Just below Madras. This is down from what it was a week ago, when the level was at 8,600, big difference, making it much easier to fish!
Clarity is good, nice green color, and about 15 feet visibility. You will find trout feeding on dries in back eddies and slack water areas. More of these water types are created due to the high water flows, so don’t be fooled, trout move where water conditions take them, and high water brings them in really close.
Blue Wing Olives and Igloo Case Building Caddis, are the two most dominate hatches now, and will increase in numbers as we move into February. 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.
The winter cycle of the BWO’s on the Deschutes produce a nice size 16, but make sure you have some 18s just in case they get picky. Also, BWO’s always a must have in your fly box. The caddis is a size 18 ~ 20 and a very dark gray in color. Expect this activity to take place between noon and 3 PM.
Not looking up, them get down to em with some attractor patterns followed by a small natural looker. Yes, a two fly rig can help the end result of the day.
If you have Q’s, please give me, John, a call. Id be glad to help!
(541) 395-2565, Anytime day or night!
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Deschutes River - Lower - January 25th, 2011
supplied by: Deschutes Canyon Fly Shop, Inc.
RECORDED:
42 °
FISHING: Fair
With the high water conditions, 8,600 CFS (cubic feet per second), being discharged from the Pelton Reregulating Dam Just below Madras, you can well imagine that trout fishing is just a wee bit tricky. Catching becomes even more challenging! Yes, you can muster up a couple of trout a day if you don’t mind fishing among the trees. I would suggest waiting a week or so, let the flows return to a more suitable level, Say under 6,000 CFS, and give it a go then. Quite simply its just not that productive at all.
Now, the clarity of the river is good, a very nice green color, and about 10 feet visibility. That been said, you very well could find trout feeding up on dries in some of the more open area back eddies. More of these water types are created due to the high water flows, so don’t be fooled, trout move where water conditions take them, and high water brings them in really close.
Blue Wing Olives and Igloo Case Building Caddis, are the two most dominate hatches now, and will increase in numbers as we move into February. 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.
The winter cycle of the BWO’s on the Deschutes produce a nice size 16, but make sure you have some 18s just in case they get picky. Also, BWO’s always a must have in your fly box. The caddis is a size 18 ~ 20 and a very dark gray in color. Expect this activity to take place between noon and 3 PM.
Not looking up, them get down to em with some attractor patterns followed by a small natural looker. Yes, a two fly rig can help the end result of the day.
If you have Q’s, please give me, John, a call. Id be glad to help!
(541) 395-2565, Anytime day or night!
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Deschutes River - Lower - January 12th, 2011
supplied by: The Patient Angler
RECORDED:
35 °
FISHING: Great
Thu and I decided to run up to Maupin and see if we could find our first steelhead of the New Year. We headed to the river on Friday morning, with plans to spend the weekend if the weather cooperated. As it turned out, we had pretty mild conditions to fish in with cool morning temperatures in the 20’s that warming up to the low 40’s by the afternoons, partially sunny skies and very little wind. The water was in great shape running a low & clear 5200 cfs, but with a cold temperature of 45 degrees.
I love fishing the Lower Deschutes this time of year. It’s not primetime for the summer run of steelhead that make their way up river each year, but because of the nature of the run and the number of stray fish that enter the Deschutes each year, an angler that is wiling to deal with the weather conditions can find active fish in the lower river through January and February, but with the bonus of very little angling pressure. It’s really an odd feeling to fish some of the most popular steelhead waters in the world that are normally crawling with anglers fighting for water, but be able to fish run after run up and down the river with no one around. It’s almost like one of those sci-fi movies where a guy finds himself alone in a big city where all the people had vanished.
It didn’t take long for Thu to find her first steelhead of the 2011 season. Twenty minutes into our first run, Thu was shouting Fish On! I hustled upstream to give her a hand and after a few minutes of head down give and take, Thu brought the wild 26 inch buck to hand and I took her picture holding her first steelhead of the season. After fishing through the rest of the run without a bump, we jumped into the truck to head to our next spot. While driving, we decided that since there was very little pressure on the river, we would try to fish a different run every time we stopped and not fish the same water twice during the weekend. We held to our program and it seemed to be working for us, because in the first seven runs we had fished on Friday and Saturday, we had hooked at least one fish in each run. That doesn’t happen for me even when the fishing is good. That streak came to an end on Saturday evening when we strayed from our different run plan and fished a run we had fished the day before. We couldn’t help it, we love to fish this piece of water and it’s just too inviting when you drive by and no one is fishing it. On Sunday, after fishing the last two days downriver, we thought we would try our luck upstream from Maupin. We did find a little more angling pressure upstream than we had encountered in the last couple of days, but there was still a lot of available water to fish. We had fished through our first run without a pull and while walking back up the road to where we parked the truck, Thu pointed out a spot off the road where I had hooked a number of fish in the past and suggested I give it a try. It’s a really tough spot to fish, hard to get too, and no casting room once you do, but it’s great holding water. So with a little more encouragement from Thu, I headed down the steep rocky bank and made my way to the spot where you balance on a single rock and make your casts between the trees. I started short and slowly started working out line with each cast making slow deep swings through the pool. I had only about 25ft of line out, made my next cast with a big mend to let the fly get down deep into the pool and just as it came on the swing, my line came tight. I immediately felt the head shakes of the fish that picked up my fly and set the hook. My line ripped down stream leaving a roostertail on surface of the water as the fish bolted to the bottom of the pool. At this point, I was no longer in control while I balanced on my rock, and I thought for sure I would loose this fish. But he stopped at the tailout of the run and I was able to slowly work him back up stream. After a number of short runs around the center of the pool, I was able to take line and get my first look at a nice bright wild fish of 29 inches as it rolled on the surface. Shortly after that, I was able to land him for a quick picture and release.
After climbing back up to the road and thanking Thu for talking me into giving that spot a try again, we headed back down the road to fish one more run before heading home. We fished through one of the campground runs without any action and decided to call it a day and make the short drive back to bend.
We mostly fished weighted rabbit leech patterns or marabou stinger flies on 15ft T- 8 or T-14 sink-tips.
It was a great weekend with good weather conditions (for January), low angling pressure and better than expected success in finding our first steelhead of the year.
The Patient Angler patientangler.com
Peter Bowers
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Deschutes River - Lower - December 31st, 2010
supplied by: The Patient Angler
RECORDED: 
25 °
FISHING: Good
Because of the pre-Christmas retail thing and the high water we’ve been having, I hadn’t been out looking for steelhead on the Deschutes for a couple of weeks, so I thought I would give the Meca Flats area one last go before it closed at the end of the year.
We arrived at daylight and geared up with all the warm clothing we could to fight against chilly temperatures. The Deschutes had dropped to 4900cfs which is still a little high, but much lower than the flows the previous week. The water was clear and cold with a temperature of around 45 degrees, so we rigged up with heavy sink-tips and weighted flies to get as close to the bottom as possible. The colder the water tends to make steelhead a little more lethargic and less aggressive to chasing swung flies, as compared to the warmer summer months where they will grab a fly swung on top with a floating line.
We fished our way through the first couple of runs and Thu had all the action of the morning with a grab and short lived hook-up of a fish that fought like a steelhead, and then she landed a nice Rainbow that took her rabbit leech on the swing a little while later. My only excitement of the morning was a big whitefish that I snagged on the swing. It was later in the afternoon when I finally hooked up with a steelhead that took my fly at the end of the swing close to the bank. I was just about to strip in for another cast when my line went tight and a small but fairly bright fish shot out from the shallow water and thrashed about on top. I gave a little line to stop the thrashing and get the fish to swim again to reduce the chance of it coming unbuttoned. Most of the time a fish will throw the hook while it’s thrashing about or jumping, so it’s a good habit to reduce pressure or give the fish a little line so it will have to right itself by swimming instead of thrashing about, then you can put normal pressure back on the fish to try and land them. Well it works most of the time….I wasn’t fast enough on the second go around of thrashing and jumping and I lost my fish. Sometimes it just happens. The day wasn’t getting any warmer, and we had run through our supply of hand warmers and dry gloves, so we headed home to fish another day.
Well, the next day was the “another day”, and I met a friend and customer of mine Simon, at Meca Flats a half an hour before light. It was another cold day, but that didn’t keep the early birds from the river. There were three other trucks already in the parking lot when we got there. We got dressed, rigged up our rods and packed some snacks and water for day ahead. After a day of frozen toes the day before, I came prepared to fight the frigid temperatures with a pair of electric socks. These are the greatest things since sliced bread, and I waded and walked all day in toasty comfort.
We worked our way down river fishing a number of my favorite spots, but failed to find a fish. Simon has just picked up spey casting, so we worked on his cast as we searched for fish. Simon had it pretty dialed by the end of the day and was feeling pretty good about his cast. The only thing we needed was a fish! We stopped to fish one last run before heading home and stood there for a minute looking at the run, talking about were we thought fish would be. There is a rock in the tailout of this run that really looks like good holding water, but is normally a little shallow to hold fish. But the river was higher than normal and the water was deeper and slower, making us believe that there was a fish waiting there for Simon. Simon started in the middle and I jumped in at the top and we started working through the run. We fished through most of the run without a pull and as I was approaching Simon’s starting point, Simon had worked down and was approaching the tail out. I thought to myself, that he must be getting close to that good looking rock in the tailout we had talked about. A second later his rod was throbbing up and down and there was an explosion of white water in the tailout. I reeled up quickly and ran down to give him a hand. When I got there, I could tell it was a nice fish from the bend in his rod and the fishes head down reluctance to give an inch. After a good amount of give and take, Simon finally got the fish to surface and roll and it was a beauty. A big colored up hatchery buck that was pushing 12 or 13 lbs rolled over on top and showed the first signs of tiring. It was a tough place to land a big fish with the fast water and surrounding trees, plus the fact that Simons was new to the difficult task of landing a fish on a spey rod. Simon did a good job fighting and getting this big fish close to the bank a couple of times, only to be denied from the landing with short bursts from this big steelhead back into the river. I thought the third time was going to be the charm as Simon worked the fish back to the bank, but things took a turn for the worst when the fish surged back into the river, followed by a loud crack as Simons rod broke and folded in half. Panic set in after the initial shock as Simon grabbed the line and tried to hand line the fish in. It wasn’t meant to be, as the fish realized it’s brief moment of freedom and bolted out into the river snapping the leader. It was a bad ending to a great fight with a nice fish that I’m sure Simon will remember for a very long time. We talked about that fish all the way back to the parking lot.
Well, we are at the end of another great season of fishing, so don’t forget to get your new license before you fish in the new year.
Happy New Year!
The Patient Angler patientangler.com
Peter Bowers
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Deschutes River - Lower - December 28th, 2010
supplied by: Deschutes Canyon Fly Shop, Inc.
RECORDED: 
37 °
FISHING: Fair
Check out our links page at flyfishingdeschutes.com and you'll see a link to Nate's new fly fishing blog. Or you can go to his blog directly: natesflyfishing.tumblr.com.
Steelhead:
IN December, the Summer Steelhaed run is complete in the lower 100 miles of the Deschutes. Most of them are spread throughout the whole system. You can fish in any section of the river and have a good chance of hooking steelhead. Even down toward the mouth, there will still be a few fish moving in and working their way up, and this is typical.
This time of year is a good time to hone up on your sink-tip skills in preparation for winter. Having said that, you can certainly have success on a floating line all day long. The water temp is still in the mid 40's, and we don't feel a sink-tip is always neccessary until it is under 42 degrees.
Trout:
Trout fishing has really picked up these last couple of weeks. Cloudy days with a hint of rain equal epic BWO hatches. These are the Accentrella and they run about a size 20, but when the trout are keyed in on them it can be a riot. Keep an eye out for midge activity in the mornings.If you have questions or you'd like to book a trip, call Deschutes Canyon Fly Shop and talk to John, Nate, or Joe:(866) 647-4721(541)395-2565
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