The Lower Deschutes has been good from the Warm Springs to Trout Creek section, with some reports of multiple steelhead per day, and some reports of no steelhead per day. Hey, ain’t that how anadromous fish go? It is. Trout bite is good, with small black jig streamers doing quite well, plus olive ones, eggs, blue perdigons, stonefly nymphs, PCP, jig Napoleon, girdle bugs and October caddis.
Most of the steelhead I have heard of being caught have been nymphing with a jig streamer or other nymph. But never say no to the swung fly! With the colder fog and less sunlight try some leeches and intruders or Ho-Bo’s that have a mix of black and blue or black and purple with flash. Draw attention to the big fly and fish it slow on a sink tip
We are still offering the November special for a $450 float trip for 1 or 2 people until November 30th. Thank you to the many great people who have gone!