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Deschutes River - Lower - May 2nd, 2008
supplied by: Deschutes River Anglers
RECORDED: 
61 °
FISHING: Good
MADRAS 4150 CFS
The deschutes river is flowing at a great level for fishing right now. The fishing on the overnight stretch of the deschutes from trout creek to harpham flats was fishing good the last few days. Some BWO's and some march browns were coming off in the warm part of the day. As the river warms up there should be more and more march brown coming off, making the fish happier and happier. If the fish aren't eating the dry fly don't be affraid to put a dropper fly on behing, this can help tons if the fish are being fussy to the dry fly.
Good luck out there
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Deschutes River - Lower - April 29th, 2008
supplied by: Deschutes River Anglers
RECORDED: 
42 °
FISHING: Fair
MADRAS 4230 CFS
The fishing has slowed down a fair bit since opening day from Warmsprings to Trout Creek. Its still not to bad of fishing and there are still some mayflies coming off, but its not red hot. One real nice thing is ever since the weekend has left us, so have the crowds.
We are going to do the overnight stretch Trout Creek down for the next few days to see how the fishing is down a bit farther down the river. Sounds like there has been some good march brown hatches coming off in the middle of the day when the wind is being to nasty crazy.
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Deschutes River - Lower - April 26th, 2008
supplied by: Deschutes Canyon Fly Shop, Inc.
RECORDED: 
62 °
FISHING: Fair
Red Side Trout:
A definite improvement over the past few days. Trout seem to be much more aggressive on the take, so, make sure your knots are good, and your tippet is fresh. Most of the “catching” is best from 11 AM until 5 PM. Feel free to use more dries because they’re grabbing more of those also. April is the peak month for our trout to spawn, so be very careful NOT to fish or wade in these areas.
Must have patterns are BWOs, Igloo Case Building Caddis, Free Living Caddis, Midge, along with Stone nymph’s, Cased Caddis, and Matt’s Fur nymphs. Make sure that you have some emerger patterns with you.
Most of the emergent stages will happen late morning, After 11:00 AM.
For best results, restricted your efforts to the middle hours of the day.
Most early spring hatches are “photo activated”, meaning the hatches that occur are triggered by how many hours of light have been on the water as opposed to a water temperature increase or decrease.
Is fishing slow? Use some attractor patterns like these. Possy Buggers, light bright dubbed Soft Hackle (green) and Bloody Mary’s. Cast a Leech or Bugger Pattern in a size range of 10~14’s. In addition, Lighting Bugs size 14, Zug Bugs size 14, and Cased Caddis size 10~12, Prince Nymphs, size 8~14, King Prince Nymph, size 12~16 and a red copper wire bodied prince nymph size 10. The Deschutes is in good condition, contrary to what you may have heard.
We have seen some color change, but its just a tinge of glacier color which does not hurt the ability for fish to see as much as one might think.
River levels from Pelton Regulating Dam in Madras have decreased to below a normal level of 4,380 CFS. I know most of you are very concerned regarding the heavy snow pack and how it will effect the spring and early summer river levels. They are going to be higher than normal. The trout will hold in water close to the bank, and this means we all have to fish further back. Its no big deal. Don’t be reluctant to change your fishing strategies, trout have to feed every day so. make adjustments and put your flies in front of the fish, not your feet. As long as we have a slow steady rise of freezing levels, the river should remain in good fishing shape.
Water temperatures are between 47 and 49 degrees. As I mentioned in the last report, some drop in water temperature can occur if the weather warms up quickly, which increases run off from the abundant snow pack. We may not see water temps in the 50’s until May. This means that you still want concentrate your efforts in slower runs, back eddies, and steep high bank runs with slow currents and foam lines.
I have noticed that some trout are starting to move into some of the quicker paced seams along the edges of riffles and in the tails of riffles where the water deepens and the current slows slightly.
This time of year is when our private lakes start to fish well. Click on “PRIVATE TROPHY LAKES” on our home page.
For more information regarding hatches, Go to the “HATCH CHART” on the home page menu on this site.
Have more questions? Allow our helpful staff to assist you any way we can!!!
Please call John or Karen Smeraglio at: Deschutes Canyon Fly Shop
Toll free (866) 647-4721
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Deschutes River - Lower - April 26th, 2008
supplied by: Deschutes River Anglers
RECORDED: 
67 °
FISHING: Great
Madras 4400 CFS
ITS ABOUT TIME
The Whole Lower deschutes river is now open.
Right now the river is at a great level, so go while you can if we get a bunch of hot weather and or rain watch out who knows what the river might do with all that snow we have.
I wasn't able to get down to the river today but I talked to a few people today and they all said it was good to great fishing. It was mainly nymphing with a little dry fly action in the middle of the day. A few march browns and a few bigger caddis came off.
From the sounds of it the crowds weren't to bad either for opening day.
Now that the river is open, this generally means that the big bugs (salmon fly) are only about a month away. This is when things get real interesting on the deschutes the fish eat and eat and eat. If you haven't fished this hatch before you should give it a shot someday.
Good luck out there.
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Deschutes River - Lower - April 20th, 2008
supplied by: Deschutes Canyon Fly Shop, Inc.
RECORDED:
45 °
FISHING: Fair
Red Side Trout:
Its Spring, or is it. Winter is still hanging on tightly with its cold grip, but the trout have ignored it and have become a bit more active. Most of the “catching” is taking place from around noon until 5 PM. Some trout are even looking up and taking some dries. April is the peak month for our trout to spawn, so be very careful NOT to fish or wade in these areas.
The Deschutes is in good condition, contrary to what you may have heard.
We have seen some color change, but its just a tinge of glacier color which does not hurt the ability for fish to see as much as one might think.
River levels from Pelton Regulating Dam in Madras did increased to above average flows for a few days, then dropped back down to normal, 4,720 CFS. Most of you are very concerned regarding the heavy snow pack and how it will effect the spring and early summer river levels. They are going to be higher than normal. The trout will hold in water close to the bank, and this means we all have to fish further back. Its no big deal. Don’t be reluctant to change your fishing strategies, trout have to feed every day so. make adjustments and put your flies in front of the fish, not your feet. As long as we have a slow steady rise of freezing levels, the river should remain in good fishing shape.
Water temperatures are between 45 and 47 degrees. As I mentioned in the last report, some drop in water temperature can occur if the weather warms up quickly, which increases run off from low level snow packs. We may not see water temps in the 50’s until May. This means that you still want concentrate your efforts in slower runs, back eddies, and steep high bank runs with slow currents and foam lines.
Must have patterns are BWOs, Igloo Case Building Caddis, Free Living Caddis, Midge, along with Stone nymph’s, Cased Caddis, and Matt’s Fur nymphs. Make sure that you have some emerger patterns with you.
Most of the emergent stages will happen late morning, After 11:00 AM.
For best results, restricted your efforts to the middle hours of the day, noon to 5 P.M. The reason for this is that most winter and some spring hatches are “photo activated”, meaning that the hatches that occur are triggered by how many hours of light have been on the water as opposed to a water temperature increase or decrease.
If fishing is very slow, use some attractor patterns like these. Possy Buggers, light bright dubbed Soft Hackle (green) and Bloody Mary’s. Cast a Leech or Bugger Pattern in a size range of 10~14’s. In addition, Lighting Bugs size 14, Zug Bugs size 14, and Cased Caddis size 10~12, Prince Nymphs, size 8~14, King Prince Nymph, size 12~16 and a red copper wire bodied prince nymph size 10.
This time of year is when our private lakes start to fish well. Click on “PRIVATE TROPHY LAKES” on our home page.
For more information regarding hatches, Go to the “HATCH CHART” on the home page menu on this site.
Have more questions? Allow our helpful staff to assist you any way we can!!!
Please call John or Karen Smeraglio at: Deschutes Canyon Fly Shop
Toll free (866) 647-4721
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Deschutes River - Lower - April 16th, 2008
supplied by: Fly and Field Outfitters
RECORDED:
51 °
FISHING: Great
Given our heavy snow pack, expect high water levels to be the norm this spring. Avoid the river after recent water level changes. Fishing has been good with March browns and BWO making up your dry fly activity. Stone flies and May flies give you the nymphing opportunities.
DO YOUR BEST TO AVOID SPAWNING BEDS THIS TIME OF YEAR!
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Deschutes River - Lower - April 13th, 2008
supplied by: Deschutes River Anglers
RECORDED:
75 °
FISHING: Fair
With all the beautiful weather showing up for the last couple of days, it has all but shut down our hatches. There were still a few BWO kicking around yesterday but not many. Nymphing was good with some P.T. and Princes, but very little dry fly action.
With the weather changing again in the next few days it should help our cause and the bugs. They say rain is a comin and BWO love that stuff.
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Deschutes River - Lower - April 12th, 2008
supplied by: The Flyfishers Place
FISHING: Fair
Although trout fishing is tough this time of year due to seasonal closures I think it is worth the effort. Warmer days are seeing alot more hatches and fish activity. See flies and locales listed below.
STEELHEAD are getting set to spawn and this can carry through spring. I tell folks to leave em alone this time of year especially Macks Canyon all the way up to Warm Springs. We want to ensure good future runs. Besides, they are pretty dark and lazy and not much fun since most have been in fresh water for over six months.
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 IS APRIL 26.
DRIES: BWOs, midges, little black stone, black / tan caddis, March browns. NYMPHS: Copper John, soft hackles, peasant tail, serendipity, prince, green rock worm, stonefly nymphs, October caddis nymphs, wooly buggers (on sinking line!!).
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Deschutes River - Lower - April 8th, 2008
supplied by: Deschutes Canyon Fly Shop, Inc.
RECORDED:
38 °
FISHING: Fair
Red Side Trout:
Spring is fighting hard to make it past a tough winter, and should get here as soon as it can. The Deschutes is in very good shape. River levels from Pelton Regulating Dam in Madras has increased a little to 4,800 CFS, still below normal. Usually its around 5,400 to 5,600 CFS. This is very good! As long as we have a slow steady rise of freezing levels, the river shall remain in good fishing shape.
We will continue to have cold water temperatures, 46 degrees, and even some drop in temperature when the run off increases as we move toward next month. The best water types to fish are slower runs, back eddies, and steep high bank runs with slow currents, and foam lines. The BWOs, March Browns, Igloo Case Building Caddis, Spring Stones, “Skwala’s” Midge, and Winter Stones will be the main insect activity. Along with some good samples of nymph’s, make sure that you have some emerger patterns with you.
As we move into April, trout will become more keyed in on these stages and should start taking advantage of them when they feed. Most of the emergent stages will happen late morning, 10 to 11:30 AM.
For best results, restricted your efforts to the middle hours of the day, noon to 4 P.M. The reason for this is that most winter and spring hatches are “photo activated”, meaning that the hatches that occur are triggered by how many hours of light have been on the water as opposed to a water temperature increase or decrease.
Attractor patterns have started working. Try some Possy Buggers, Glow Bugs, San Juan Worms, Blue/Purple Prince Nymph, and Bloody Mary’s. Cast a Leech or Bugger Pattern in a size range of 10~14’s. In addition, Lighting Bugs size 14, Zug Bugs size 14, and Cased Caddis size 10~12, Prince Nymphs, size 8~14, King Prince Nymph, size 12~16 and a red copper wire bodied prince nymph size 10.
For more information regarding hatches, Go to the “HATCH CHART” on the home page menu on this site.
Have more questions? Allow our helpful staff to assist you any way we can!!!
Please call John or Karen Smeraglio at: Deschutes Canyon Fly Shop
Toll free (866) 647-4721
Steelhead:
The Steelhead fishing is off.They have settled down to spawn and should be left alone.
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 (866) 647-4721
Deschutes Canyon Fly Shop, Inc.
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Deschutes River - Lower - April 7th, 2008
supplied by: Deschutes River Anglers
RECORDED:
47 °
FISHING: Good
The season for the upper half of the river is less than a month away it opens on April 26th. Until that time the lower river has been pretty good of late. With the clouds around today there was a pretty good BWO hatch coming off and some small caddis #16ish and some biggers ones #12ish. The hatches came off strong when the wind wasn't blowing to crazy out of control. Before the hatches the fish were eating emergers good. The rest of the day before and after the hatch has been like it has for the past few months nymphing the riffles. Keep an eye on the weather the cloudy days seems to be the days we get the best hatches right now.
Good luck out there
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