Mouth of the Deschutes - Report

[Two Fister]

See report below!

The steelhead counts are looking pretty good.

Conveniently, I've got to run up to Wenatchee for work tonight. I figure I'll be done and on my way back home by tomorrow in the late afternoon/early evening. I'm thinking that I'll be way too tired to drive all the way back to Bend, so I'll need to find someplace to stop and rest for awhile. Wouldn't you know it, the mouth of the Deschutes is almost exactly halfway home for me!

I'm going to sleep in my truck and hit some of the east bank water at daybreak. If anybody is up for some early AM fly swinging, I'll be the guy in the gray GMC crew cab.

If I can get in the Blackberry run that's where I'll probably be. Look for the guy trying to remember how to cast his spey rod.

TF

[Two Fister]

Whoops. Forgot that I'm driving rental to Wenatchee. I'll be the guy crammed in the blue Nissan Altima trying to sleep.

Hope to some of you guys can break away and join me! If you leave early you can be back at your salt mines in Portland by about noon.

Cheers!
TF

[greenbuttskunk]

wish I could, but I'm doing some nook fishing friday on the Cr. Have fun Dan!
Brad

[dubl_t]

I hope to be there friday eve, but let us know how it went.

[Two Fister]

Sorry it took me so long to report back in. Hit the mouth a bit (read three hours) after sunrise as I got stuck in Wenatchee. Got two solid tugs but couldn't get a good hookup while swinging an After Dinner Mint in Natural Muddler colors. Both fish took near the bottom of the swing just subsurface. I was fishing the run just below Rattlesnake rapids on the east side of the river with an intermediate sink tip as the sun was bright on the water. I bumped into a guy that I know from Bend that had landed 11 over the course of 3 days.
He was giving the steelheading a break during the sunny part of the day to go out to catch smallmouth bass. He said that there were swarms of them schooling in the lower Deschutes in bigger numbers than ever seen before. That's probably not a great thing. If anybody is short of crab bait that may not be a bad option!
TF

[Navigator]

Thanks for the report! I will be heading out that way this weekend.

[Two Fister]

Bring your air conditioner as it has been brutally hot there this week. Watch the water temps as well as you can kill steelhead that are caught and released in water that's over 65 degrees. If it's more than 65 you might think about killing some bass behind the Moody Island instead of boiling steelies. It's supposed to cool down a bit by Sunday! Have a great time and stay cool!