The Lower Deschutes is on a roll, even with a bump in water last weekend and early in the week the Warm Springs to Trout Creek area was really really good for our guys. It has been excellent nymph fishing, and eggs, jigs, perdigons, stonefly nymphs and small streamers (leeches, sculpins) are doing really well.
Mattias caught 3 steelhead on Wednesday and he and Drew hammered the trout and whitefish. Troy had a nice guide trip there on Friday and even had a beginner who got some nice fish. Troy and Tonn were doing the 3 day drift through Whitehorse when the soaking rain storm hit, and they woke up to a swollen river that next morning but still managed some good trout and one more steelhead.
We’ve got another 2+ weeks to enjoy the Warm Springs to Trout Creek section (East side only as the WS Reservation closed 10/31/23) so get out there until 12/31 and do some fishing before it is closed for 4 months.
Remember the Maupin areas are open year round so january and february days in the Locked Gate run is a good bet if we get a mild winter.