Deschutes Report, Warm Springs to Trout Creek

For those wondering, WS to TC is still booting out double digit takes of the violent variety.  I fished with a buddy Tuesday and was guiding yesterday, fishing is still really good.  I expect the Salmon Fly and Golden Stone dry fly fishing to stay good for at least another week.  Side note lots of Salmon Flies the last couple days and fewer Golden's.

The caddis hatch should be right behind this event and we still have some multi day opportunities in June as well as some single day stuff around Maupin and Warm Springs.  Enjoy this trout fishing because the Steelhead are right around the corner.

Here's a couple of nice one's that made it to the camera.

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Sam Sickles
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Deschutes Fly-fishing, Goldens & Salmon Flies

This report is a gonna be short and sweet.  Just spent the last six out of seven from Trout Creek to Maupin and here's what I know.

• Golden's outnumber the Salmon Flies 15:1
• The Chubby Chernobyl is catching them all the way to Locked Gate
• Clark Stone's as a comeback work very well, bring some
• They are also eating Caddis, standard size 16 is working well

Those are the high hard ones and here's the rest

• The best fishing has been Trout Creek to Kaskela so I assume Warm Springs to TC is good, I'll know tomorrow!
• The absence of bugs is noticeable below White Horse but it doesn't matter yet...
• Have seen zero Green Drakes
• Nymphing hasn't yielded much but whitefish
• There are ticks all over the place and the poison oak is everywhere

The caddis hatch seems to be coming on early and we had a lot of fun yesterday fishing them in the smooth water and for feeding fish.  

On a scale of 1-10 the fishing has been a solid 9!

On a side note, Steelhead!  I know it's a ways out but if you are looking to book this year you better do it soon.  To date we have three days in August (5,6,28) and September (1,2,3,25,27), July and October are not as pressing but that should change in the next 30 days.  My calendar is here , July (discounted) ,make sure to put a number of anglers in to see availability.

See you out there!

SS

Deschutes Fly Fishing Report (pre hatch)

My first day on the upper deschutes this season was May 9th and it was a good one.  Warm Springs to Trout Creek, 4400CFS, water temp about 54 degrees.  May weather in Central Oregon is schizophrenic and this day was no different.  Gale force winds mostly pushing down river, hail, rain, and even sunshine and calm.  It was nice to be the only boat on the river, if at least for a while.  Happy to see the Sherriff doing his job, got a safety check while I was waiting on my folks.

Fishing started out pretty tough but it was expected first trip up and all.  Three rods fishing it didn't take too terribly long to start finding some fish. Our first fish  (pictured above) had some serious thickness.  We fished everything in the box and finally just settled in on what they were eating.  Big brown jimmy legs seemed to be all they wanted, and that's all they got!

So here's the deal, there are lots of adults, both Salmonfly and Goldens but the fish are NOT keyed on them yet.  We saw some BWO's and some smaller caddis popping off but no surface activity.   The fish are gorging themselves on salmonfly and stonefly nymphs, and they are stuffed beyond belief.  It's gonna heat up next week again, this is when the river is gonna go off.  As always don't show up early and have your mind set on fishing dries.

See you out there,

Sam Sickles
(541) 521-9054
www.steelheadoutfitters.com