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Deschutes River - Lower - January 1st, 2008
supplied by: The Flyfishers Place
FISHING: Fair
For the second year in a row, I got a Christmas Day Steelie on the Deschutes. Trout fishing is tough this time of year due to seasonal closures. Steelhead are still availabe but realize they have been in fresh water for about five months (or more!) now and are starting to show their age. However, the river gets a small push of "B-run" fish near the mouth.
Please be aware of spawnig beds... it may be tempting to wade out to redds that have fish spawning -- BUT if you want the Deschutes to continue being a blue ribbon trout stream AND great steelhead fishery, respect the beautiful Steelies, trout, and precious few Chinook. We all want our great-grandkids to enjoy this river, don't we ?
THE RIVER IS CLOSED TO ALL ANGLING FROM THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY OF THE WARM SPRINGS INDIAN RESERVATION ALL THE WAY UP TO THE DAM. OPENING DAY IS IN APRIL!!
DRIES: BWOs, midges, little black stone. NYMPHS: Copper John, soft hackles, peasant tail, serendipity, prince, green rock worm, stonefly nymphs, October caddis nymphs, wooly buggers (on sinking line!!).STEELIES: Green butt skunk, macks canyon, a-leach, wally walker, red-winged blackbird, Freight Train
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Deschutes River - Lower - December 29th, 2007
supplied by: The Patient Angler
RECORDED: 
29 °
FISHING: Good
I walked in from the Meca Flats parking area on the Lower Deschutes River, to swing a few runs and see if I could catch a day after Christmas Steelhead. It was 17 degrees when I left the house, and not very sure if I had made a good decision to get out of my warm and cozy bed. Of course, I felt a lot better when I arrived at the river and the temperature had risen to a balmy 25 degrees (what was I thinking). The water has been in good shape lately, running around 4600 cfs and clear. I fished a few runs within a mile of the parking lot with no takers, so I decided to make the long walk down stream to a couple of popular runs about half way to Trout Creek where I’ve had some luck this season. I was able to hook-up with two Steelhead, which certainly helped justify the long walk. The first was a wild fish that I thought was a huge fish by the way he ripped all the line off my reel and a good portion of my backing after a hammering the fly. After he stopped taking line, I put some pressure on him and started working him back up stream. From the weight on the line I could tell he was not as big as I had thought, but he must have thought he was a big fish by the fight he put up. After a little give and take, he finally started to give in to my pressure and I was able to bring him to hand. He was a fairly bright fish with a little color on the flanks around 26 inches and in great shape. On my walk back I stopped to fish a few more spots and picked up a colored-up hatchery fish that took at the end of my swing right next to the bank on the hang down. So for all you steelheaders that swing for fish, make sure you complete your swings all the way to the bank before starting your next cast. Especially if you’re the first one through a run, fish sometimes rest in holding water right next to the bank until they are pushed off to deeper water by wading pressure. I was fishing a 7136-4 Z-Axis with my Marabou Stinger fly on a heavy sink tip.
I’m going to try to get down one more time before the upper und closes for the year. Hope to see you out there with a bend in your rod.
The Patient Angler patientangler.com
Peter Bowers
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Deschutes River - Lower - December 23rd, 2007
supplied by: The Patient Angler
RECORDED: 
42 °
FISHING: Good
Deschutes River-Warm Springs to Trout Creek
I got the opportunity to float with Cap’n Ron and Dr. Dave last Wednesday. The river had been holding at 4650cfs for almost a week with a water temperature of 48 degrees. When we hit the river at 7:00, the air temp was a balmy 42. There wasn’t another rig in the parking lot, so we anticipated our choice of fishing spots. Early morning was uneventful, but late morning Dave and I both landed fish at the same time fishing runs right next to each other. I landed a beautiful 29” native hen that didn’t run much but bull dogged me for about 10 minutes. David landed a respectable 25” hatchery hen that his wife reported tasted wonderful. Later that afternoon, Dave and I had a front row seat as Ron farmed a fish. He maintains it was a trout, but we know better. Swinging type 6 and type 8 tips were the method of choice to get down on the bottom. The marabou stinger fly accounted for all action during the day. I can’t say enough good things about that fly. All in all, it was a great day. Two for Three. Not another boat or fisherman on the river. A little rain. Almost a perfect day of steelheading in my opinion.
Just a reminder that the Deschutes bordered by the Indian reservation closes at the end of the year, so you need to get there soon if you want to fish that section before next season. The river remains open from just above Maupin down, though. This provides sporadic steelheading and fun winter trout fishing.
Happy holidays to all. We hope Santa brings you everything you wished for. If he doesn’t, The Patient Angler is here to help fill in any gaps.
Tight lines and big fish. patientangler.com
Reed Teuscher
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Deschutes River - Lower - December 18th, 2007
supplied by: Deschutes Angler Fly Shop
RECORDED: 
45 °
FISHING: Great
December 18 update - the conditions on the Deschutes continue to be fantastic! The steelhead are still grabbing flies consistantly, though fishing has tended to be better in the late afternoon as water temps warm up a degree or two. This is the tail end of the steelheading fun on the Deschutes, but you will still find some bright fish eager to grab flies. We are going deep with big black and blue strign leeches and heavy sink tips. Any color fly will probably work, but we have certainly been hooking most of our fish on black/blue and black/ purple or combinations therein.
For hardcore steelhead anglers, it is easy to make a weekend trip out here to fish the Deschutes for a day then pop over to the John Day to fish that for a day. It is only about an hour to get to the John Day from Maupin - stop by the shop and we'll show you the back roads that will take you directly to the John Day. The John Day has been fishing well also, this is the time of year that all the summer run fish finally have enough water to swim up the John Day and they are aggressive! Hotels are half price in Maupin if you don't feel like camping!
The rest of this report is what I posted about two weeks ago. It still holds true. The river got a little high and off color but has now dropped back down into clear perfect shape. The entire river is clear - but the White River is always iffy at this time of year so stay posted on our website for more info if needed.
The Deschutes in and around the Maupin area is in excellent shape both in terms of water flow and water clarity. The recent snow and cold weather we have had may have lowered the water temps a degree or two, but the fishing remains strong. Steelhead are now just settling into their long-term holding water, they will be in the mainstem of the Deschutes for the next few months waiting for February and March when they can begin spawning. Even though the snow is falling lightly around you and your guides are freezing, these are still summer run fish, so they will be getting darker and a bit skinnier as winter sets in. We have been getting morning water temps of 48 degrees and late afternoon temps maybe one or two degrees higher, depending on air temps and whether or not the sun is shining. This is getting to the sink tip temperature range, so we are using tips and weighted string leech patterns with good success. Steelhead are certainly podded up right now, so if you find a run with one or two steelhead grabbing your fly on the first pass through, it is certainly worthwhile to go through a second time with a slightly different fly pattern to see if you can't swing up a few more fish. Swinging will cover the greatest amount of water, and is certainly our preferred method for hooking steelhead - simply because we love that GRAB! Anglers will also be successful using nymphing methods, with heavily weighted stoneflies or bright rubberleg patterns. You will certainly lose a few more flies using high-sticking, but you have greater opportunity at hooking trout, whitefish, and the allmighty course scaled sucker - so that's gotta count for something!
To give you an idea of how good your steelhead fishing might be right now, three of our guides from the shop floated for three days from Trout Creek to Maupin. Hooked around 20 steelhead - a couple of good runs produced 6 fish each in a couple of passes when other runs didn't produce anything. All of our steelhead were hooked on swinging sink tips and string leech and regular hair wing fly patterns in size 4. Half of these fish grabbed the fly right away before it had a chance to sink, so they could have been hooked with floating line techniques. Fishing might be better above Maupin but there are still plenty of wonderful wild steelhead below Shearer's Falls.
Trout fishing right now is changing over from finding those redsides in fast bouldery pocket water (which they prefer in the summer) to finding the majority of big rainbows hanging out in slow water stretches and big deep backeddies. The biggest and best trout will be hovering below foamlines in the mid-day to chow down on blue winged olives and midge hatches - coming off like clockwork between noon and two (strongest on overcast days). The rest of the day you will want to search for these bruisers with a dry/dropper rig or get down n dirty with some heavy nymphs. Trout season remains open all winter long from the Warm Springs Reservation North Boundary line to the confluence with the COlumbia. If you are fishing upstream or downstream via access roads that follow the river out of Maupin - you are legal. South Junction, Warm Springs, Mecca, and Trout Creek are all closed to trout fishing now and will close to steelhead fishing on Dec. 31.
If you need up to the minute fishing reports or water flow readings, check out the information on www.deschutesangler.com - we are open everyday throughout the winter, so stop in when you cruise through Maupin.
Tight lines! - Amy & John Hazel and the staff at Deschutes Angler Fly Shop
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Deschutes River - Lower - December 8th, 2007
supplied by: The Flyfishers Place
FISHING: Good
Well, this is a good time of year on the Deschutes but keep an eye on the water levels. Anything over 5,000 cfs at the Madras gauge means no fishing that day!
Although TROUT fishing starts to taper off a bit in December, targeting redsides is worth the effort. Nymphing for trout with a 6 wt is a good idea because you may hook a Steelie and having a little extra "wood" to lay on 'em helps. Keep an eye out for Fall hatches. STEELHEAD are viable from the Mouth all the way up to the dam, but at this point of the season, most steelies are between Maupin and Warm Springs. "B-Run" fish do show up as high as Macks Canyon in December, but don't expect one-after-another fishing. However, now is the time to hook into a Trophy near the Mouth. Don't let the weather stop you from gettin out there!! Expect water levels to be higher than normal for the rest of the season.
Please be aware of spawnig beds... it may be tempting to wade out to redds that have fish spawning -- BUT if you want the Deschutes to continue being a blue ribbon trout stream AND great steelhead fishery, respect the beautiful Steelies, trout, and precious few Chinook. We all want our great-grandkids to enjoy this river, don't we ?
TRIBAL WATERS (DRY CREEK TO TROUT CREEK) ARE CLOSED NOW AND REOPENS IN APRIL 2008 !
DRIES: BWOs, Henryville Caddis, Mahogany Duns, Yellow comparadun, Rusty Spinner, Parachute Adams.NYMPHS: Copper John, soft hackles, peasant tail, Angle Case emerger, sparkle pupa, serendipity, prince, green rock worm,October caddis nymphs, wooly buggers (on sinking line!!).STEELIES: Green butt skunk, macks canyon, a-leach, wally walker, red-winged blackbird, Freight Train
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Deschutes River - Lower - November 29th, 2007
supplied by: Deschutes Canyon Fly Shop, Inc.
RECORDED: 
40 °
FISHING: Fair
Summer Steelhead:
The Steelhead fishing has slowed down quite a bit, however, we’re still getting the odd fish every now and again. The Wild Steelhead are spread throughout the whole lower 100 miles of the Deschutes River and will be sort-of milling around for a couple of months until they settle down to spawn this coming February.
Most of the hatchery Steelhead have found their way up to the Warm Springs area, but there are still some of them around the Maupin stretch. This provides an opportunity to produce that holiday favorite treat,
Smoked Steelhead!
Water temperature is 48*, which is starting to get on the chilly side of the active range, still a good fishing “temp-range” but you might bring some sink-tips or sinking poly leaders to get your flies down a little closer to the fish.
Believe it or not, dry line techniques will still work at these temperatures. I usually wont go to sink tips exclusively until water temps get below 45*.
The river level is 4,800 CFS from Pelton, thats a good level, but these levels can fluctuate more this time of year due to winter rain, snow, and changing freezing levels.
Here are some flies that I recommended for the current conditions.
Moal Leech, Size, 4’s & 6’s, in black, Purple, Pink, and Orange. Wombat, Size 2, same colors. Marabou Spey, size 4, same colors. Reign Spey,size 4, same colors. Yes, you can still use the good standby’s that you like also.
Especially when the water returns to that clear/green Winter color.
A little tip.
Making sure you slow your fly swing speed down as much as possible.
This will help to get the fish interested in the fly, and then follow it.
Use flies that have a little flash on them during low light conditions, and dull fly colors when the sun is on the water. Think about using a sink tip to get the fly lower in the water columns if the sun is directly in there eyes.
Have fun!
Please don’t hesitate to call if you have any questions.
Our helpful staff will be very pleased to help you.
Thanks, and good fishing to all!
John Smeraglio
Deschutes Canyon Fly Shop, Inc.
(866)647-4721 Toll Free
Red Side Trout:
Trout fishing is fair, and restricted to the middle hours of the day for best results.
Best water types are slower runs, back eddies, and steep high bank runs that have a slow flowing movement with foam lines.
If your efforts are spent before noon you need to get some of your favorite attractor nymphs and work those patterns in the above waters described with some additional weight to help the cause.
The highest level of fish and hatch activity usually takes place from 12 noon untill around 3 to 4 in the afternoon. After that, back to the attractor nymphs. Small Stone nymphs, size 10~14, Prince Nymphs, size 8~14, King Prince Nymph, size 12~16, Bloody Mary’s, size 12~14, Small Wooly Buggers etc...
The hatches this time of year of course are your winter cycle of the blue winged olives, (size 16~18) Igloo cased building caddis, (size 18~20) and the occasional winter stones (little brown stone) in a size 16.
Midges this time of year will hatch off and on in the morning and late afternoons. Best sizes to use 18, 20, and 22.
If Q’s, Call! We will be happy to answer anything for you.
Deschutes Canyon Fly Shop Toll Free (866)647-4721
Thanks!
John Smeraglio
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Deschutes River - Lower - November 17th, 2007
supplied by: Deschutes River Anglers
RECORDED:
52 °
FISHING: Good
MADRAS 4380cfs
Fishing is good but keep an eye on the flows as we have had a lot of rain lately. Still getting steelhead on floating lines. Water temps 52 in the warmth of the day and 48 in the morning. White river could blow any minute I would call the Deschutes canyon fly shop if you will be on the lower 40 miles of rive below Maupin. Trout fishing is hit or miss. I bet the rain and bad weather will help.
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Deschutes River - Lower - November 17th, 2007
supplied by: The Flyfishers Place
FISHING: Good
Well, this is a good time of year on the Deschutes. Although TROUT fishing starts to taper off a bit in November and December, targeting redsides is worth the effort. Nymphing for trout with a 6 wt is a good idea because you may hook a Steelie and having a little extra "wood" to lay on 'em helps. Keep an eye out for Fall hatches. STEELHEAD are viable from the Mouth all the way up to the dam. Don't let the weather stop you from gettin out there!! Expect water levels to be higher than normal for the rest of the season.
Please be aware of spawnig beds... it may be tempting to wade out to redds that have fish spawning -- BUT if you want the Deschutes to continue being a blue ribbon trout stream AND great steelhead fishery, respect the beautiful Steelies, trout, and precious few Chinook. We all want our great-grandkids to enjoy this river, don't we ?
TRIBAL WATERS (DRY CREEK TO TROUT CREEK) ARE CLOSED NOW AND REOPENS IN APRIL 2008 !
DRIES: BWOs, Henryville Caddis, Mahogany Duns, Yellow comparadun, Rusty Spinner, Paraschute Adams.
NYMPHS: Copper John, soft hackles, peasant tail, Angle Case emerger, sparkle pupa, serendipity, prince, green rock worm,October caddis nymphs, wooly buggers (on sinking line!!).STEELIES: Green butt skunk, macks canyon, a-leach, wally walker, red-winged blackbird, Freight Train
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Deschutes River - Lower - November 17th, 2007
supplied by: The Patient Angler
RECORDED:
68 °
FISHING: Great
Fished the Trout Creek to Maupin stretch of the Lower Deschutes a couple of days ago with my good friend Mike Arnold from Phoenix, Arizona. Mike came up for our semi-annual Steelhead trip and we floated with Jeff Coughenour & Scott Blackwell from High Desert Drifters. If you’re ever in need for a 3 or 4 day guide trip on the Lower Deschutes, these guys do a great job.
The water was in good condition running 4700cfs and clear, and with a water temperature in the low 50’s. The weather was very nice for camping with fairly warm temperatures and lots of sun. Not always the best weather for fishing, but with very little angling pressure on the water and the use of sink-tips we were able to hook over 20 Steelhead between the two of us. The Best Fish Of The Trip honors went to Mike when he hooked and landed a big beautiful bright wild Steelhead that was around 33 inches long and very healthy. This fish went ballistic on mike making wild runs, jumping and cart wheeling all over the river and didn’t want anything to do with being landed. Finally after a long battle, she gave up and came to hand and we able to get some hero shots.
Mike had some previous experience and some success learning to cast a spey rod on our last couple of trips, but on this trip I put the new 7136-4 Z-AXIS Spey in his hands and he had a perpetual smile on his face for the rest of the trip as he covered more water and caught more fish than ever before. We were both fishing 7wt Spey rods with 500grn Skagit lines, sink-tips with short 10lb leaders and my Marabou Stinger Fly.
The Patient Angler patientangler.com
Peter Bowers
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Deschutes River - Lower - November 10th, 2007
supplied by: The Flyfishers Place
FISHING: Good
Well, this is a good time of year on the Deschutes. TROUT fishing starts to taper off a bit in November and December but targeting redsides is worth the effort. Nymphing for trout with a 6 wt is a good idea because you may hook a Steelie and having a little extra "wood" to lay on 'em helps. Keep an eye out for Fall hatches. STEELHEAD are viable from the Mouth all the way up to the dam. Don't let the weather stop you from gettin out there!! Expect water levels to be higher than normal for the rest of the season.
Please be aware of spawnig beds... it may be tempting to wade out to redds that have fish spawning -- BUT if you want the Deschutes to continue being a blue ribbon trout stream AND great steelhead fishery, respect the beautiful Steelies, trout, and precious few Chinook. We all want our great-grandkids to enjoy this river, don't we ?
TRIBAL WATERS (DRY CREEK TO TROUT CREEK) ARE CLOSED NOW AND REOPENS IN APRIL 2008 !
DRIES: BWOs, Henryville Caddis, Mahogany Duns, Yellow comparadun, Rusty Spinner, Paraschute Adams.
NYMPHS: Copper John, soft hackles, peasant tail, Angle Case emerger, sparkle pupa, serendipity, prince, green rock worm,October caddis nymphs, wooly buggers (on sinking line!!).STEELIES: Green butt skunk, macks canyon, a-leach, wally walker, red-winged blackbird, Freight Train
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