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Middle Deschutes
May 16, 2003

Posted by In search of Solitude
Email: DPCW2@HOTMAIL.COM

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3:59, almost 4:00 and that means time to fish. I don't get out as much as I used to due to the sole fact that I was reccently married. So needless to say I treasure the small amount of fishing I am able to do. I am one of those guys who enjoy fishing in quiet waters where you rarely see another fisherman or if you do they don't come charging through your waters just cause they see a rise. My favorite spot is the middle deschutes, sure it doesn't hold the biggest fish or as many as the lower Deschutes does but it does have fish. I get in around crooked river ranch and fish down near foley waters. The water level is already at it's summer flow and the salmonflies are coming off. I haven't seen many fish rise to them and those that I did see were below steelhead falls. There is a great hatch of caddis coming off pretty much all day and March browns are making their final stand. I never catch more than a few fish mostly cause of time and probally cause I am only good enough to catch a few. It is a great place to take beginners or novice fishermen. However even the most advanced can have a good day. July through September is when the fishing dies down, not because of hatches or the fish move on but because the water heats up to about 70 degrees do to its low flow. Sure you can catch fish but to what expense? You release them only to die a little further down stream. Trout have a hard time acclimating themselves to such brutal temperatures and it kills them to have to fight a fisherman during those times. Nonetheless have a great time, stop in to Central Oregon Outdoors for more info. They have a great source of information on the Deschutes as well as the Crooked and Metolious.

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