Winter Steelhead
We're nearing the end of the season with just a few more weeks left. Time to search out your grand finale! The first couple weeks of April can produce some excellent fishing, and the crowds will start to thin. And it's just a wonderful time to be giving it a try. There are plenty of notable signs of spring throughout steelhead country, but they're especially evident on the coast. The plants are exploding and a lot of the spring birds are showing up. The salamanders are filling up pools along the rivers and the water temps are staying in a very favorable range. The steelhead will be making their last big push here. Time is no longer on there side and Spring Chinook are not too far behind them. If you want to get a few more cracks at winter fish, get out there sometime in the next couple weeks while there are still chrome fish to be had.
Deschutes Trout
Certainly wouldn't call it busy out there and the reports we've been hearing are quite good. The river is at a very nice spring flow and the water temps are good. Still a pretty mixed bag of bugs on any given day, but one worth focusing on is the early caddis. They may not be present in big numbers every day, but the fish have certainly been into them. If you're nymph fishing, but sure to try a caddis larva behind your standard larger point fly. Larva patterns with some green in them have been very productive. Beyond that, the streamer fishing has been periodically off the charts! If you get to try it on a cloudy day, hope for some surface activity, but push the streamer fishing in between. This is a great time of year for some amazing streamer fishing if conditions line up.
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