DESCHUTES JET BOAT GUIDE TRIPS FOR STEELHEAD This is a really cool fishery and honestly one of my favorite times to fish the Deschutes River for summer steelhead. This is a lower river game. By lower river I mean the lower 3 to 12 miles of the river. For…
It’s been a weird kind of year. High flows and cold fronts have definitely affected the Salmonfly/Stonefly hatch. The giant bugs are present in all stretches of the river. Although the bug presence is heavy and they’ve been there for two weeks now, the fish are not keyed on…
Check out my article “Deschutes River Fishing Playbook” hosted at the Gorge Fly Shop.
I KNOW, IT’S JUST BARELY WINTER STEELHEAD SEASON! May comes pretty fast and it pays to plan ahead. The Salmonfly hatch is the most explosive surface action of the year! Few things in the Northwest get fly fishermen more excited than the Salmonfly hatch on the Deschutes River in Oregon.…
Read Part II Here As a full time spey rod guide I spend a lot of time with two handed rods, my rods, client rods; I get to cast lots of different rods. For the last decade I’ve been a staunch Winston advocate and I still am. That said, when…
