Deschutes Trout Flyfishing
Late Post, but last Friday a couple friends and I ran over to Maupin for some flyfishing. Due to the traffic on 205 we got there with only an hour of fishing light left. "No Problem", I think to myself.
"The fish are rising and we still have all day tomorrow."
I caught a couple little guys in the first 15 minutes, then snagged a tree. I yanked, trying to snap the leader, and snapped my 4 weight fly rod. Said a few things I probably shouldn't have.
Crack'o-Dawn,Saturday morning; I break out the steelhead, grab a fistful of spinners, and head out after some big ones. I catch a few big trout on a panther Martin, but the steelies are still mostly lower on the river. Bored, I start brain storming, and pretty soon decide to run into Maupin and buy a casting bubble so I can continue flyfishing for the Redsides.I catch a dozen or so with a fly on a 6 foot leader after the casting bubble, and life is good again, but I have another brainstorm. Instead of tying the leader and the fly after the bubble, I tied a 20 inch dropper 8 feet behind the bubble, put a caddis emerger on the dropper, and started casting this out into the pool. If you have fished the lower Deschutes, you know that there are a lot of huge trout that hang out in the big pools across a couple of currents, and even if you could cast there, the drag makes it impossible to get a decent drift. Well with this setup, all I had to do was cast out, hold the rod high, and dab the fly along the top of the water as it drifts drag free. The numbers of fish I caught were great, the size was even better. Don't break your flyrod, but keep this technique in mind next time you can't get to the biguns.
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