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Trout
Deschutes River:
Quite a bit of smoke is still lingering around most of Oregon and the lower Deschutes River. It should start to get better out there going into the weekend, especially with some potential rain coming tomorrow. Fishing has seemed a little unimportant at the moment with all that is going on around the state.If you do get out on the Deschutes to fish, I’d wear a KN-95 mask, which is the best mask to block out small smoke particles. Fishing has remained strong however for trout. Lots of fish euro nymphing recently with some truly large Deschutes redsides being brought to hand throughout the whole lower river. Small red copper johns or lightning bugs are good droppers behind your big rubber legs lead fly.
Cooler water and cooler air temps for sure out there so the trout will be feeding quite heavily to fatten up before winter arrives. There have been some October caddis around on the lower river as well, which is a larger caddis that hatches in about a size 10-12. I like using either big orange elk hair caddis patterns, or a big foam october caddis for my dry. October caddis nymphs can be run as a lead fly in a two fly nymph rig as well as they are good size bugs. Look for these to become more important and prevalent as we move closer to October.
With this more off color water, you can get away fishing heavier tippet and bigger flies. The fish also aren’t as spooky because they can’t see as well. Use this to your advantage.
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Lakes continue to produce fish. Similar to other bodies of water, trout in the high mountain lakes are going to be feeding quite heavily in preparation for winter. Colder mornings up there, so it can take the fish a little while to wake up and eat your fly but by mid to late morning, they usually snap.
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Lake Fishing:
Lakes continue to produce fish. Similar to other bodies of water, trout in the high mountain lakes are going to be feeding quite heavily in preparation for winter. Colder mornings up there, so it can take the fish a little while to wake up and eat your fly but by mid to late morning, they usually snap. Same techniques we always talk about. When the water starts getting cooler and you are fishing a sinking line with some sort of leech or bugger, slowing down your strip retrieve rate is important. When the water is warmer in the heat of the summer they are more aggro towards a faster strip rate. Try slowing down and downsizing your flies to smaller patterns, and you should find success.
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Summer Steelhead
Deschutes River:
The steelhead fishing remains good. With the more off color water we are seeing, fishing sink tips and big flies is the best bet. In off color water I like running a quite large black and blue intruder, something the fish can see and react to. Using heavier sink tips is smart as well. T-11 or even T-14 to allow your fly to get right down in their face where they can see it. The numbers are looking quite good over the Dalles Dam in recent days, so if you brave the smoke, you might get rewarded.Steelhead are spread throughout the entire river by now, probably a slightly higher concentration down by Mack’s/Mouth, but lots of fish above Sherars falls around Maupin as well. Hopefully this smoke clears sooner than later so we can enjoy a beautiful fall out in the canyon.
Lots of fall chinook around as well and will often take similar steelhead flies. They typically like to hang in deeper pools but you’ll run into the odd one here and there sitting in steelhead water.
Lots of fall chinook around as well and will often take similar steelhead flies. They typically like to hang in deeper pools but you’ll run into the odd one here and there sitting in steelhead water.
Hood River:
The Hood has been fishable with cooler air temps as of late. Even with slightly more visibility on the Hood, fishing sink tips and larger intruders or tube flies will be your best bet. The Hood is not really a dry line/small fly steelhead river. Fish are more willing to crush a properly swung black and blue intruder than anything.
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Smallmouth bass fishing is strong if you know where to look. The main Columbia is a big river so being able to find the pockets along the shore with rocky structure is important, and you’ll find the bass here. Sinking lines with streamers is a good method as is fishing under an indicator with a big balanced leech or wooly bugger.
We want to thank all of the brave firefighters during this tragic time in Oregon. Our hearts and prayers are with those impacted by these wildfires and we hope that we can get through this difficult time. Let’s hope mother nature comes through with some rain today to help ease the spread of these fires.
Smallmouth Bass/Carp
Carp fishing is not very good right now. With so much smoke, it is nearly impossible to see fish cruising at all. This is the time of year anyway, when carp fishing is over. It’s more of a June, July and August fishery.Shop Carp Flies
Smallmouth bass fishing is strong if you know where to look. The main Columbia is a big river so being able to find the pockets along the shore with rocky structure is important, and you’ll find the bass here. Sinking lines with streamers is a good method as is fishing under an indicator with a big balanced leech or wooly bugger.
We want to thank all of the brave firefighters during this tragic time in Oregon. Our hearts and prayers are with those impacted by these wildfires and we hope that we can get through this difficult time. Let’s hope mother nature comes through with some rain today to help ease the spread of these fires.
Stay safe everyone!
-Zach
-Zach
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