Deschutes Fishing report
I know it’s not yet spring but it feels like it. The sun is shining, the snow is visually receding from my driveway and my boats, and it’s warm. I took a day, yesterday to go over to the Deschutes and play around with some “Euro” nymphing. The drive was breathtaking with snow everywhere and bright sunny skies. My destination was Maupin, a nice place to do a short day. My first sighting of the Deschutes since December was a bit shocking, it looked high and dirty. As I drove upstream I encountered large boulders all over the road from the snow runoff. There is so much snow melt right now that there are little waterfalls and Nena Creek is raging, that should make for happy steelhead.I kicked my boat of the trailer, loaded my gear and set off to an all but empty river. I saw three rigs road hunting, and some dudes on a mid-afternoon float…all day. I didn’t have super high expectations based on the weather, color and flow of the river and water temps. My expectations were exceeded. I found willing fish at every stop, some spots many eager fish were found. To my surprise there was a nice little blue wing hatch about 1PM and in the shady spots the fish were feeding on dries and emergers. As the day wore down the bite definitely slowed down but not to zeros.
I chose to spend the day “euro’ nymphing and I hooked a lot of fish. I’m not sure if I’d have done as well with traditional nymphing techniques I’d like to think I would have but who knows. One things for sure euro-nymphing is elective and I foundd this style of fishing fun. If you head out to the Deschutes to go trout fishing bring a lot of pat’s stones with a tungsten bead. Even with all the BWO activity the fish were 3 to 1 on the stone. The other file I had a lot of success on was a little frenchie with a salmon hot spot.
C’mon Spring!!!
Sam Sickles
(541) 400-0855
www.steelheadoutfitters.com
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