The Deschutes River

[Aneoakleaf]

The Deschotes River is where we were thinking of fishing sometime this week. Anyone have any sugestions ? We've never been there and want to fly fish it with no boat  for starters.
Thanks for any advice.

[fishcrazy]

The river in Wa, or Org? not sure what riveryer talking about.

The Wa river is probably to chunky right now. Last I drove over it I don't think it was fishable.
it can be good for chukn bugs when the water is in better shape.

Kris

[Houndhunter]

deschutes?

[Aneoakleaf]

deschutes?

you know...I'm a retired floral designer...I never had to spell any thing right!
Yeah   Oregon ...the famous Deschutes river... Thanks hound!

[jackelope]

park at the mouth and walk upstream maybe? i've fished it 2x both times multi-day floats from warm springs to maupin.
maybe mack's canyon too...lower river. big water, not friendly wading, rocks the size of VW's

[fishcrazy]

You might try ifish.net they are a Oregon fishing web page.

Kris

[boneaddict]

Big water.  Take a big rod to cover it.  Flow generally is controlled so doesn't vary much with rain.  (better than most rivers anyway)  Kind of an odd time of year to be fishing it, but should hold some good ones.  I'd do stonefly nymphs with a little dropper.  Can't fish from a boat.  They go by "shooting hours" to fish it, so no night fishing.  Make sure you have all your licenses and stuff as they train on the river and are sticklers (I know you'd be fine, but if anyone else is reading.) 

[carpsniperg2]

its just down stream from me i have fished there a few times with no luck hard fishing. good luck hope someone gets into them i can't seem to. outside the mouth we have done good before.

[jackelope]

epic trout fishing in may-june(salmonflies), potentially epic steelhead water in october with lots of 5-10lb fish.  also good trout fishing in october too with blue winged olives....redband rainbows...good stuff.

[Aneoakleaf]

  Thanks everyone, Sounds like this trip will be an exploration of the river rather than a "fishing trip" I know it's an odd time of year,,,but we need to dround some flyes
Thanks for the link Kris, I'll check it out! FISH ON!!!

[Huntbear]

Anne,

Give me till tomorrow night.  I work with a guy that fly fishes that river regularly, will ask him  where is best for someone to fish it the first time.

[Dmanmastertracker]

 I had best luck on the Deschutes fishing the inlet streams and side-channels, the main stem didn't produce at all for me. The usual black gnat's, olive woolley buggers and mosquito's will produce. You may want to bring a clear bobber, there are areas where you cannot back-cast very well. Try the area around Bend.

[jackelope]

all the trout we caught were right on the bank and they were rising to blue winged olives, a lot of fish under the overhanging trees...this was in october.

there is a pretty healthy population of rattlesnakes there...just a warning.

[Dmanmastertracker]

all the trout we caught were right on the bank and they were rising to blue winged olives, a lot of fish under the overhanging trees...this was in october.

there is a pretty healthy population of rattlesnakes there...just a warning.

 And some nice muley buck's too.
 Did you catch only Cutt's? That's all I found, same, in the brush and logs.

[carpsniperg2]

muleys and bighorn if you get up there far enough