Gorge Fly Shop Blog: Deschutes Trout Season 2021

Feb 25, 2021

Deschutes Trout Season 2021 - Steelhead outfitters

Trout season will be here before you know it.

April- Blue Wing Olives/March Browns
May- Salmonflies, Golden Stones, Little Sallies
June- Little Sallies, Caddis, and a mess of may flies

Deschutes River Trout (Jetboat)

We launch at Heritage Landing in a jet boat. Heritage Landing is a straight shot from Portland down I84. You meet me at the boat ramp and we get into the sled. There's no shuttle and no long gravel roads.

We start fishing in mid April during the pre-stonefly, March Brown timeframe, which offers some of the best fishing of the year. There will be adult stoneflies and salmon flies the first week of May and we'll fish dry flies well into June. We do trout spey and euro nymphing as well as traditional fly fishing.

Fishing the “lower lower” is a chance to experience dynamic dry fly fishing in solitude unimaginable around Warm Springs. Many days we see no other boaters and lots of hungry trout!