Anyone fish the white river?

[rock bottom]

Has anyone here ever fished the White river off of the Deschutes? How did you do? What did you use?

[Ryan Pultz]

Every time I see it is has to much color. rp

[rock bottom]

I wonder if later in the fall when it cools down if it clears?

[drbfish]

I fished a few times a few years ago before the ice dam broke. It was an OK river, lots of fast water. I hear that there is some privet property you can pay to fish that holds some big, even huge, redsides. I think that smurf can hook you up. Years and years ago there were some guides that had access to the upper river and did trips that (according to them) were awesome (tons of fish).

[long_shanks]

I would like to know myself, see it , never fished it

[Blue Tip Spinner]

i have access to the private property that you guys are talking about and it is truly awesome! if the water is clear, you can have some outstanding dry fly fishing for trout that you would swear are steelhead. the river is very dependent on the weather and it does milk up real fast.

i usually use a caddis pupa size 12 in olive and a humpy for the dries. the lower river below the falls is also very good. the biggest trout i have ever hooked on a fly came from that section of river.

[Abalone]

White river has huge trout. I think it was even better when they planted it. We are talking above the falls.

I used to fish it down from Tye Valley. It used to be open to the public as the owner would allow people to fish
it. The owner is Fred Ashly and he and his wife are very nice people. Someone camped out there about nine years
ago and started it on fire. Can't blame them for closing it. After that he contracted it out to a guide but I hear the
guide isn't around any more or they had a falling out or something. I have drifted it since but the park closed off
the access to the bank and it is impossible to get my boat up the bank anymore so I quit fishing it.

I have had days where I have caught Fifty trout, some Eighteen inches.
The ODFW biologist have shocked the stream. When my cousin was still working for ODFW he watched them
one day. Saw fish up to and over 5 lbs.. I would love to get back on it. Funny thing about that part of the river is
the fish tend to bunch up. You can go 1/2 mile and catch nothing then all of a sudden a fish with every cast.

I never fly fished it. I always used rooster tails. I am sure flies would work except many times I had to let the
spinner drop under heavy brush. I don't know how that would work even with a weighted fly.

Here is the secret to White River.

White river as we all know milks up so you have to go very early in the season or late. Say October or around
deer season when everyone else is hunting. The fish spend most of the time way up the Canyon. Later in the
season when the water warms up the fish move down river to cool off. They can't go below the falls so the bunch
up down there.

Both side of the river get leased out for hunting. My inlaws leased the North side a couple seasons ago.
Ashly leases his side also. Some of that stretch is BLM but I won't float it anymore partly out of respect for the
land owner and partly because I don't like hassles with people. Technically you can fish it from a boat but it
isn't practical. If I were you I would drive down Ashly road to the house and ask permission. You never know,
he might grant it. A friend of mines Daughter Married the son so maybe I can get back on ??? It is a great river
if you can hit it right.

BTW: I know some one that has float Whiter River from Mt. Hood all the way to Tye Valley three times.

It is very hazardous. Logs accross every part of it.

He told me all about it. He owns Andy & Bax and is a friend of one of my relatives.

To bad they don't dam it up and make a nice trout lake out of it. Lots of my friends would have lake front
property... ( Just kidding )....


If you look around you might be surprized at some of the Secret waters left in Oregon. Many of them have
to be timed just right.

[Zodiac-Fisherman]

Guys,

Is this river the same river that would be on the right hand side of the free way if you were to drive from Timberline Lodge to Hood River? I recall seeing a Milky river, each time I make the drive, I have always said to myself, this looks like a great river to fish in.


Dylan

[Ryan Pultz]

Yes Zodiac that is the one. Rp