Navigator
07-30-2005, 09:39 PM
Fished the evening fish Friday, 7/29, paid my $12 to camp with the earwigs (and there were insects on the ground too :grin:) so I could fish the morning to afternoon fish today. Here is the report.
Beautiful evening indeed!
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/Nice_Mecca_Evening.jpg
This western kingbird wanted to know if I was going to catch anything.
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/Western_Kingbird.jpg
Well, I didn't. The fish said :noway:.
Saturday was another beautiful day. I didn't know you could see Mt. Jefferson from the lower Deschutes, but you can:
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/Mt_Jefferson.jpg
I only got a couple of small trout in the morning - nymphing. One on a small green rock worm type thingy and the other on a bead head pheasant tail.
No hatch activity to speak of. Friday night was silent - nothing doing. Quiet as can be. Saturday morning there were sporadic risers - you know, the big bruisers rising way out in the middle of the river. Occassionally, a rise or two within casting distance. Not a clue what they were keying in on :shrug:. I fished hard. Mostly nymphed, with little stuff, different depths. I did try dries on occassion but I basically stink at dry fly fishing and don't have the confidence factor working for me. Worked different water - above and below the campground. It was dead. Pretty much how everyone else was doing - though I did hear of a 14" taken on a dry mid-day.
So, I left the river with this image ingrained in my mind. Knowing I would be back.
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/Nice_Drift.jpg
Pressure was light. Campground did not fill, only 3-4 cars in the lot. Guess I didn't get the memo.
Saw one nice rattlesnack - the biggest I have seen. It moved on. Saw one nice gopher snake. Osprey was out. Heron. Cottontails. Ground squirrels. Lots of rustles in the bushes. Kingfishers a plenty, redwing blackbirds, coyotes yipping in the evening.
97 degrees in Warm Springs on the drive home. Didn't take a water temperature but comfortably cool wet wading.
Despite the spankola - I still love the Deschutes.
Beautiful evening indeed!
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/Nice_Mecca_Evening.jpg
This western kingbird wanted to know if I was going to catch anything.
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/Western_Kingbird.jpg
Well, I didn't. The fish said :noway:.
Saturday was another beautiful day. I didn't know you could see Mt. Jefferson from the lower Deschutes, but you can:
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/Mt_Jefferson.jpg
I only got a couple of small trout in the morning - nymphing. One on a small green rock worm type thingy and the other on a bead head pheasant tail.
No hatch activity to speak of. Friday night was silent - nothing doing. Quiet as can be. Saturday morning there were sporadic risers - you know, the big bruisers rising way out in the middle of the river. Occassionally, a rise or two within casting distance. Not a clue what they were keying in on :shrug:. I fished hard. Mostly nymphed, with little stuff, different depths. I did try dries on occassion but I basically stink at dry fly fishing and don't have the confidence factor working for me. Worked different water - above and below the campground. It was dead. Pretty much how everyone else was doing - though I did hear of a 14" taken on a dry mid-day.
So, I left the river with this image ingrained in my mind. Knowing I would be back.
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/Nice_Drift.jpg
Pressure was light. Campground did not fill, only 3-4 cars in the lot. Guess I didn't get the memo.
Saw one nice rattlesnack - the biggest I have seen. It moved on. Saw one nice gopher snake. Osprey was out. Heron. Cottontails. Ground squirrels. Lots of rustles in the bushes. Kingfishers a plenty, redwing blackbirds, coyotes yipping in the evening.
97 degrees in Warm Springs on the drive home. Didn't take a water temperature but comfortably cool wet wading.
Despite the spankola - I still love the Deschutes.