The Lower Deschutes is good, but mid day can be a grind as the sun beats on you and the river. Best fishing is dawn to about 1PM and from 6 or 7 PM to dark, especially the last 60 to 90 minutes of the day is when the best hatches of pale evening duns and tan caddis are rolling. Water temps seem to be consistently safe in the Warm Springs to Trout Creek run, but check them if you’ll be down below, especially Maupin down to the Columbia.
This week’s hot weather coming up will be a good time to be on the water early in the morning, or from 7 to dark.
I had great sports from Mattias, Troy and Michael from their guide days down here this past week. Mattias was doing well with purple perdigons, tan caddis pupa and leeches, and Troy is always hot on tan caddis in the summer.
it is a good time to swing yellow soft hackles #12-16, or get out the trout spey 3 or 4 weight and a sink tip with a leech, sculpin, minnow or crayfish pattern and work the runs out deeper and farther than a nymph rig will go.